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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1096

Feet First

193093 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: English
This copy runs: 91:18
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Clyde Bruckman · Public domain

Synopsis

Shoe salesman Harold pretends to be a wealthy industrialist to impress a woman he mistakes for his employer's daughter. Keeping the deception alive carries him from Honolulu onto a ship as an accidental stowaway. A mailbag and a window-cleaning platform then place him high above the streets of Los Angeles.

Cast

Harold Lloyd

Barbara Kent

Robert McWade

DirectorsClyde Bruckman

Historical context

Harold Lloyd's second sound feature returns to the high-rise danger associated with his silent comedies. The long climb grows out of the same mixture of romantic ambition, concealment and practical mishaps.

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Photograph credit

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Harold Lloyd — Daniel Blum · Public domain
Barbara Kent — Photoplay magazine; http://www.silentladies.com/PhtplayKL.html · Public domain
Robert McWade — Klein & Guttenstein; http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/macauley/id/101/rec/5 · Public domain

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