He gets Bill to agree to do it by offering him $500. He remembers Bill's talent and pitches the idea of having a man climb the " 12-story Bolton building", which De Vore's occupies. While going to retrieve her purse (which Mildred left in the manager's office), he overhears the real general manager say he would give $1,000 to anyone who could attract people to the store. In his embarrassment, he has to pretend to be the general manager, even succeeding in impersonating him to get back at Stubbs. She mistakenly thinks he is successful enough to support a family and, with his mother's encouragement, takes a train to join him. Meanwhile, Harold has been hiding his lack of success by sending his girlfriend expensive presents he cannot really afford. The policeman tries to follow, but cannot get past the first floor in frustration, he shouts at Bill, "You'll do time for this! The first time I lay eyes on you again, I'll pinch you!" To escape, he climbs up the façade of a building. When Bill does so, he knocks over the wrong policeman. Bragging to Bill about his supposed influence with the police department, he persuades Bill to knock the policeman backwards over him while the man is using a callbox. When Harold finishes his shift, he sees an old friend from his hometown who is now a policeman walking the beat. He shares a rented room with his pal "Limpy" Bill, a construction worker.
He gets a job as a salesclerk at the De Vore Department Store, where he has to pull various stunts to get out of trouble with the picky and arrogantly self-important head floorwalker, Mr. He promises to send for his girlfriend so they can get married once he has "made good" in the big city. It then becomes obvious they are at a train station and the "noose" is actually a trackside pickup hoop used by train crews to receive orders without stopping, and the bars are merely the ticket barrier. The three of them walk toward what looks like a noose. His mother and his girlfriend, Mildred, are consoling him as a somber official and priest show up. The film opens in 1922, with Harold Lloyd (the character has the same name as the actor) behind bars. It is one of many works from 1923 that notably entered the public domain in the United States in 2019, the first time any works have done so in 20 years. In 1994, Safety Last! was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Lloyd performed some of the climbing stunts himself, despite having lost a thumb and forefinger four years earlier in a film accident. The film's title is a play on the common expression "safety first", which prioritizes safety as a means to avoid accidents, especially in workplaces. It is still popular at revivals, and it is viewed today as one of the great film comedies. The film was highly successful and critically hailed, and it cemented Lloyd's status as a major figure in early motion pictures. It includes one of the most famous images from the silent-film era: Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic. Safety Last! is a 1923 American silent romantic-comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
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