Safety Last

Pros: Very appealing main character and story. One of the all-time classic comedy sequences.
Cons: None

Harold Lloyd is often forgotten when it comes to the great comedy stars of the silent film era. It usually boils down to a (sometimes pretty heated) debate between Buster Keaton fans and Charlie Chaplin fans, and Lloyd gets lost in the mix. Part of the ...

Pros: Huge laughs, good family movie, "new" look at antique subject
Cons: Silent -- but that's okay!

For those of you who aren't familiar with the Harold Lloyd classic "Safety Last," surely you'll recall having seen the image of the nerdy-looking bespectacled man hanging high above a bustling city street from the hand of a clock. Despite the...

Pros: gags, story, direction, cinematography
Cons: simplistic and stereotyped characters

Because Lloyd's films are less available than those of Chaplin and Keaton, his career has received less attention from historians. Certainly, Chaplin was in a league of his own as a silent film actor and director. Nothing that either Keaton or Lloyd...