QUOTES AND PRESS

"To see it today with an audience alternately roaring with laughter and gasping is one of the greatest experiences of cinema." - David Shipman

“Demonstrates Lloyd’s ability to do more than milk a gag, but to top it ... Each new floor is like a new stanza in a poem; and the higher and more horrifying it gets, the funnier it gets.” – James Agee, Comedy’s Greatest Era

"Needs to be seen on a big screen with a full house ... Lloyd was no YouTube comic, but a master of timing who calibrated each shot to the laughter and gasps of a large public, building crescendos as surely as any great composer." - Dave Kehr, The New York Times

"Uproarious." - Elina Mishuris, The L Magazine

"Lloyd chose to be of his world and time, and for his troubles he always came out as a winner, the most perfect avatar of the American century the silent cinema produced." - Paul Anthony Johnson, Cinespect

"Lloyd moves with a dancer's athletic grace ... He delighted in both sight gags that fooled the eye and mind, and outright slapstick." - Harry Kollatz Jr., Richmond Magazine

"In case it isn't obvious: the vertiginous climax of this film, performed by a man with only one hand, needs to seen on the big screen." - Adrian Mack, The Straight

"Iconic… It's a sequence that still has the power to thrill, ninety years after it first made movie audiences gasp and hide their eyes." - Carrie Pomeroy, The Twin Cities Daily Planet

"A gem of its era." - Jack Garner, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

"Lloyd's gift for comic mayhem is all over this movie … Safety Last's comedy is fresh and dependably hilarious, viewed in a gorgeous print likewise unscathed by time." - Randall King, The Winnipeg Free Press