Safety Last!
“You're Going to Explode With "Safety Laughs" when You see This Fun Bomb.”
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Genres
Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Studio
Hal Roach Studios
Language
en
Status
Released
How Safety Last! performed
Budget
$121,000
Worldwide Gross
$1.5M
Gross Profit
$1.4M
Return
12.4× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$216K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
The Boy
Harold Lloyd
The Boy
The Girl
Mildred Davis
The Girl
The Pal
Bill Strother
The Pal
The Law
Noah Young
The Law
The Floorwalker
Westcott Clarke
The Floorwalker
Man Laughing from Window (uncredited)
Roy Brooks
Man Laughing from Window (uncredited)
Newsboy with Freckles (uncredited)
Mickey Daniels
Newsboy with Freckles (uncredited)
Worker with Acetylene Torch (uncredited)
Richard Daniels
Worker with Acetylene Torch (uncredited)
Newsboy with Cap (uncredited)
Ray Erlenborn
Newsboy with Cap (uncredited)
General Manager's Assistant (uncredited)
William Gillespie
General Manager's Assistant (uncredited)
Department Store Customer (uncredited)
Helen Gilmore
Department Store Customer (uncredited)
Man with Flowers / Studio Photographer (uncredited)
Wally Howe
Man with Flowers / Studio Photographer (uncredited)
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