Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Feb 2, 2026 4/4

Long before Safety Last! reaches its exciting climax, it has made its mark as a screen classic.

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Dennis Harvey 48 Hills Nov 30, 2023

Lloyd is generally considered the most prosaic of the era’s comedic “big three,” lacking Chaplin’s poetry and Keaton’s deadpan genius. But his movies were, and are, great mainstream entertainment...

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Jennie Kermode Eye for Film Aug 21, 2023 5/5

There are some brilliant slapstick sequences and there’s also great character work which emphasizes that, for truly skilled actors, spoken dialogue is far from a necessity.

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Jules Caldeira Film Inquiry Jul 29, 2023

To see a film from a hundred years ago that can still make your palms sweat is especially impressive. Safety Last!, Harold Lloyd’s most famous picture, manages to do so while also delivering delightful comedy throughout.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Apr 27, 2023 3/4

Safety Last! builds towards a justifiably iconic climax...

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Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand Apr 14, 2023

... apart from the long shots featuring a stuntman, that’s Lloyd himself scrambling up the bricks and cornices, thanks to a mix of nervy stuntsmanship and ingenious location shooting....

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Apr 5, 2023 A

It goes like lightning and seems supercharged by creativity and by the comedy of physical logic particular to silent films.

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Bill Newcott The Saturday Evening Post Apr 1, 2023 5/5

A distinctively modern comedy in 1923; 100 years on it remains so. More than ever, we’re all hanging from that clock, trying not to panic as a disinterested, preoccupied world scurries below us, indifferent to our passions and pain.

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George T. Pardy Exhibitor's Trade Review Mar 16, 2023

In Safety Last the inimitable Harold Lloyd adds another brilliant comedy success to his long list of mirthful screen triumphs.

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Carl Sandburg Chicago Daily News Feb 22, 2023

The large and growing number of Harold Lloyd fans will enjoy Safety Last. It is full of the tricks which have earned him his friends, and in some scenes he is probably funnier than in any previous picture.

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María Luz Morales (Felipe Centeno) La Vanguardia (Spain) Feb 22, 2023

The technique of this production... [is] truly marvelous. [Full review in Spanish]

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Robert E. Sherwood LIFE Feb 22, 2023

[Safety Last] lacks the usual spontaneity and buoyancy of a Harold Lloyd comedy. Nevertheless, it is marvellously ingenious. It is brimming with tricks that are calculated to tickle the ribs and chill the spine at one and the same instant.

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Inez Cunningham Chicago Tribune Feb 22, 2023

Why [people] should be supposed to find entertainment and not torture in seeing another human on the point of falling to certain death is a mystery to what intelligence I possess. However, there are six reels of it, and it proved vastly entertaining.

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Guillermo J. Reilly Cine-Mundial Feb 22, 2023

I don't believe I'm mistaken in classifying it as excellent from all points of view. [Full review in Spanish]

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Grace Kingsley Los Angeles Times Feb 22, 2023

As for Lloyd, we always knew he was funny, but we never realized how funny until this one. It isn't only that he does funny stunts; his comedy method Itself is perfect of its own original kind.

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Adele Whitley Fletcher Motion Picture Magazine Feb 22, 2023

It was hours after leaving the theater before we had recovered from the exhaustion occasioned by the thrills and hysterical laughter.

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Frederick James Smith Photoplay Feb 22, 2023

This climbing stunt is the last word in nervous farce. In all his comedy predecessors along this line, Lloyd has never touched the smashing effectiveness of Safety Last.

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Charles Larkin Motion Picture News Feb 22, 2023

Any human being that can sit through Harold Lloyd's latest and not find in it a barrel of good, old fashioned laughs, and real enjoyment -- well that person might just as well be like old Tut-Ankh-Amen-well embalmed.

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Stanley C. Warrick Moving Picture World Feb 22, 2023

It is another testimonial that one touch of Harold makes the whole world grin, and in addition to grinning it will make the fans laugh, chuckle and chortle with glee.

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P.W. Gallico New York Daily News Feb 22, 2023

As photocomic entertainment it is in a class by itself. We have rarely heard people laugh and shriek in a theatre as they did yesterday.

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