Safety Last
1923, NR, 78 min.
Directed by Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Harold Lloyd.

Due to a scheduling conflict, Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last will screen instead of The Navigator. The live musical accompaniment will be performed by the Garreth Broesche Trio, a jazz swing group, who also wrote the original score. This is the movie that features Lloyd’s climatic stunt famously performed – without a net – on the side of a 12-story building.

This article appears in August 30 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.