Editing Safety Last! (section)

==Reception==
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''[[The New York Times]]'' gave ''Safety Last!'' a very positive review.<ref>[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C05E4D71630E333A25751C0A9629C946295D6CF "The Screen"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 2, 1923</ref> A contemporary review in ''[[Photoplay]]'' predicted the film's future: "This new Harold Lloyd farce will become a classic of its kind, or we will miss our guess. For it is the bespectacled comedian's best effort to date." "This is easily one of the big comedies of the year. It is seven-reels in length—but it speeds by with the rapidity of a corking two-reeler," the reviewer concluded.<ref>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writers, no by-line.--> |title=The National Guide to Motion Pictures Saves Your Picture Time and Money |url=https://archive.org/stream/photoplayjanjune00chic_1#page/64/mode/2up |journal=[[Photoplay]] |location=New York |publisher=Photoplay Publishing Company |date=June 1923 |access-date=August 21, 2015}}</ref>

The [[Library of Congress]] added ''Safety Last!'' to its [[National Film Registry]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|website=Library of Congress|access-date=May 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=November 15, 1994|title=25 Films Added to National Registry|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/15/movies/25-films-added-to-national-registry.html|access-date=August 11, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The [[American Film Institute]] nominated the film for both their [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies|1998]] and [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)|2007]] lists of ''AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI's Greatest American Films - Nominees |url=https://www.filmsite.org/afi400films.html |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=[[Filmsite]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=100 Greatest American Films 10th Anniversary - Nominees AFI |url=https://www.filmsite.org/afi400films_2007.html |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=Filmsite}}</ref> It was also nominated for ''[[AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs]]''.<ref name="AFI-500">{{Cite web |date=2006-09-26 |title=List of 500 Movies Nominated for the Top 100 Funniest American Movies |url=https://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/laughs500.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711172435/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/laughs500.pdf |archive-date=July 11, 2019 |access-date=2019-12-28 |website=[[American Film Institute]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI's 100 Greatest American Comedies |url=https://www.filmsite.org/afi500laughs.html |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=Filmsite}}</ref> It placed #97 on ''[[AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFI's 100 YEARS…100 THRILLS |url=https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-thrills/ |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=American Film Institute |language=en}}</ref>

[[Rotten Tomatoes]] gives the film a rating of 97% from 70 reviews, with the consensus: "Persuasive enough to give audiences acrophobia when they aren't laughing at Harold Lloyd's antics, ''Safety Last!'' is a marvel of visual effects and slapstick comedy."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/safety_last |title=Safety Last - Rotten Tomatoes |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref> 
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==In popular culture==
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The image of a man dangling from a clock face is so indelibly linked with ''Safety Last!'' that even the most oblique references inevitably recall the film simply by association. Examples (explicitly or implicitly acknowledged) include:
*In 1962, the "dangling from the skyscraper" scene was included in ''[[Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0194553/|title=World of Comedy|date=May 12, 1962|access-date=June 2, 2018|website=IMDb.com}}</ref> a [[compilation movie]] produced by Harold Lloyd himself. The film premiered at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] and created a renewal of interest in the comedian by introducing him to a new generation.
*The 1972 ''[[Dad's Army]]'' episode "[[Time on My Hands (Dad's Army)|Time on My Hands]]" features men hanging precariously from the hands of a clock tower.
*The 1978 film version of the [[John Buchan]] story ''[[The Thirty Nine Steps (1978 film)|The Thirty Nine Steps]]'' features [[Richard Hannay]] ([[Robert Powell]]) hanging from the minute hand on the clock face of [[Big Ben]].
*The 1985 film ''[[Back to the Future]]'' pays [[Homage (arts)|homage]] to [[Harold Lloyd]] "dangling from the skyscraper" by having one of the film's stars [[Christopher Lloyd]] (no relation to Harold) hang from a clock tower as part of the plot.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.amctv.com/movie-blog/2007/03/back-to-the-fut.php |title=Back to the Future |access-date=December 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304080508/http://blogs.amctv.com/movie-blog/2007/03/back-to-the-fut.php |archive-date=March 4, 2012 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>  In addition, a [[meta-reference]] appears in the opening scene of ''Back to the Future,'' in the form of a physical table clock which depicts the ''Safety Last!'' scene.
*The 1991 comedy film ''[[Oscar (1991 film)|Oscar]]'' paid a direct homage to the scene, recreating it on its poster, where the main character (played by [[Sylvester Stallone]]) hangs from a clock.
*The 1999 Christmas TV episode of ''[[Futurama]],'' ''[[Xmas_Story]],'' depicts ''[[Philip J. Fry]]'' dangling from a huge digital clock face, atop a tall skyscraper.
*In [[Martin Scorsese]]'s 2011 film ''[[Hugo (film)|Hugo]],'' a portion of the scene with Lloyd hanging from the clock is shown when the main characters sneak into a movie theater. Later, the title character Hugo similarly hangs from the hands of a large clock on a clock tower to escape a pursuer.
*[[Honda]] paid tribute to the movie in a commercial for its [[Acura TLX]] luxury vehicle under the [[Acura]] brand in the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzq2gbPFLlc| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019220350/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzq2gbPFLlc&gl=US&hl=en| archive-date=2020-10-19 | url-status=dead|title=Break the Silence|date=September 30, 2020|access-date=October 15, 2020|website=youtube.com}}</ref>
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