Safety Last! (1923)






A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.


Vintage magazines

Photoplay , June 1928

Books with substantial mentioning of Safety Last!

National Film Theatre
Fifty famous films, 1915-1945
[London], [[between 1945 and 1960]

Merrill Schleier
Skyscraper cinema, Architecture and gender in American film
Minneapolis, 2009

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Brian J. Robb
Silent cinema
Harpenden, Herts, 2007

Kathryn Bernheimer
The 50 Funniest Movies of All Time, A Critic's Ranking
Secaucus, NJ, 1999

Robert K. Klepper
Silent Films, 1877-1996, A Critical Guide to 646 Movies
Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1999

Glenn Mitchell
A-Z of Silent Film Comedy, An Illustrated Companion
London, 1998

Books with an entry on Safety Last!

Robert B. Connelly
The Motion Picture Guide, Silent Film 1910-1936
Chicago, 1986


Year: 1923
Country: United States
 
IMDb: 0014429