Safety Last Film Analysis

In the film "Safety Last!" Harold Lloyd came a long way since his stage début at the age of 12 in "Little Abe", and Harold plays a clumsy, dim-witted young man. Harold is leaving Great Bend in pursuit of better job opportunities in "the big city", but ends up working at a department store. He does all this in hopes of making enough money to marry a girl he loves called Mildred, but things become increasingly complicated for Harold when Mildred makes a surprise visit to the big city at his place of work none the less. Furthermore, this surprise visit makes Harold's job of pretending to be a big shot much more complicated and further complicates things by pretending to be a manager. Additionally, Harold's problems seem to come to an end when he overhears a conversation between a general manager, and Bill offering a great deal of money for Bill to climb a tall building to promote the store. Harold wishes to complete the task to get the money or himself, and it seems as if he will though the help of a police officer that is looking into Bill for an earlier incident. Although the plot is ordinary, Harold in this movie is anything but, and every situation is approached with adolescent humor as we have seen completed by "The Three Stooges".

The film as depicted above is described as a "comedy," and each scene Harold faces hardships to which isa
Harold went on to make many more films after this one, but eventually died at the age of 77 on March 8, 1971. Harold was survived by his son Harold Lloyd Jr. an actor and a singer. Unfortunately, Lloyd Jr. found it hard to live in his father's shadow and to be a homosexual male (since it was socially unacceptable in his era), and because of these reasons is probably why he was an alcoholic. He died soon after his father, on June 9, 1971 at the age of 40 from an Intracerebral hemorrhage or better known as a