The silent classic which inspired Jackie Chan's gravity-defying plummet from the clock tower in Project A, Safety Last! marks a high point in the career of Harold Lloyd, the often underrated comedy genius whose reputation and legacy has been unjustly overshadowed by Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. If the dangling from the clock tower scene looks familiar, Jackie Chan wasn't the only filmmaker to pay his respects to the comedy great - the clock tower scene in Back to the Future was also intended as an homage to Safety Last! But as the saying goes, the original is still the best, and the film has quite rightly been acclaimed as one of the greatest silent comedies of the period. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFBYJNAapyk
