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'''''Safety Last!''''' (1923) is perhaps the most famous and best-remembered film of silent film comedian [[Harold Lloyd]]. Harold is working as a clerk in a department store. He has been telling his girlfriend back home that he is a big success and sending her presents he can't really afford, which causes a problem when she comes to the city to visit him. Harold temporarily solves this problem by pretending to be the manager of his department store, but a more permanent solution offers itself when the real manager says he'll offer $1000 to anyone who can come up with a good publicity stunt to attract attention to the store. Harold concocts a scheme in which his good friend Bill will climb up the side of the building as a stunt. However, a local cop is after Bill and Bill has to flee, leaving poor Harold to do the dangerous stunt himself.

The shot of Lloyd hanging from the clock is the [[Signature Scene]] of Lloyd's career, gracing the cover of the recent DVD box set.

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* [[Greedy Jew]]: Harold buys a chain for his girlfriend from a shifty jewellerjeweler with a hooked nose called Silverstein, who constantly wrings his hands in avarice (the accompanying musician(s) shift into Klezmer-type music here, just so we get the point). Harold, embarrassed, starts imitating the man's hand-wringing. The joke is still amusing to modern audiences, because of the added irony of knowing that [[N-Word Privileges|Harold Lloyd himself is Jewish]].

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