- Feet First
Infobox Film
name = Feet First
caption = Original US release poster
director =Clyde Bruckman
producer =Harold Lloyd
writer =
starring = Harold Lloyd (Harold Horne)Barbara Kent (Barbara)Robert McWade (Mr. Tanner)
music =Mischa Bakaleinikoff (uncredited)Claude Lapham (uncredited)
cinematography =Henry N. Kohler Walter Lundin
editing =Bernard W. Burton
distributor = Paramount
released =November 8 ,1930 (USA)
runtime = 93 min
country = USA
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0020876 "Feet First" is a 1930 comedy film starringHarold Lloyd , a very popular comedian during the 1920s and early 1930s. It was Lloyd's second sound ('talkie ') feature. It is also one of his 'thrill' comedies, involving him climbing up a tall building.Production
This was the second film with Barbara Kent, and the last occasion on which Lloyd would appear with the same leading lady. Although the skyscraper sequence used techniques similar to that on Lloyd's most famous film "
Safety Last " (with afacade constructed on a tall building) the penultimate sequence uses back-projection.In the original release, Harold attempts to obtain the assistance of a gormless black janitor, whom he nicknames 'Charcoal' (played by
Willie Best who later seen on the My Little Margie television program). In the 1960s re-release, Lloyd overdubbed his own voice to change the name to 'Charlie'.The film was re-released again in segments as part of
Time-Life 's "Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy" television series in the 1970s. However since the majority of the clips in the series came from silent films, the sound track was removed as if to imply that it too was a silent film. It has since been released onDVD in its correct format.Plot
Harold Horne, an ambitious shoe salesman in
Honolulu , unknowingly meets the boss' daughter (played byBarbara Kent ) and tells her he is a millionaire leather tycoon.The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later as an (accidental) stowaway on board a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he becomes trapped in a mailbag, which is taken off the ship and falls off a delivery van onto a window cleaner's cradle, which is hoisted upwards. Escaping from the bag, finds himself dangling high above the street. After several thwarted attempts to get inside the building, he climbs to the very top, only to slip off - unaware his foot is caught on the end of a rope, which rescues him inches from the ground.
ee also
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List of United States comedy films External links
* [http://www.haroldlloyd.com The Harold Lloyd Trust]
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