Feet First (1930)
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Harold Lloyd's second talkie finds The Bespectacled One playing a shoe clerk in Honolulu. Harboring dreams of becoming an executive, Lloyd passes himself off as a millionaire to heiress Barbara Kent. As the plot merrily rolls along, Harold stows away on a ship bound for the mainland, and ends up at the top of a dizzying skyscraper. In a reversal of his dilemma in 1923's Safety Last, Lloyd must find the safest way to climb down the building--with the dubious assistance of bumbling black janitor Willie Best (here derogatorily billed as "Sleep 'N' Eat"). Attempting to extend his silent-film technique into the talkie era, Harold Lloyd is successful about half the time. The climactic building-climbing sequence, though amusing, pales in comparison to Lloyd's earlier excursions into "high and dizzy" humor. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Harold Lloyd - Harold Horne
- Lillian Leighton - Mrs. Tanner
- Alec B. Francis - Mr. Carson, old-timer
- Noah Beery, Sr. - Shoe Store Bit
- Nick Copeland - Man arguing with friend
- Henry Hall - Endicott
- Buster Phelps - Little boy
- Robert McWade - John Tanner
- Barbara Kent - Barbara
- Noah Young - Sailor
- Willie Best - Janitor
- James Finlayson - A Painter
- Arthur Houseman - Drunken clubman
- Leo Willis - Truck driver
- Director(s):
- Clyde Bruckman
- Writer(s):
- Lex Neal, Felix Adler, Paul Gerard Smith
- Producer(s):
- Harold Lloyd
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