Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor | 1923 | USA | 70 Min

A Country boy (Harold Lloyd) heads to the big city to earn enough to marry his sweetheart. While working as a clerk in a department store, he talks the manager into offering $1000 to anyone who can bring more customers to the store. He then creates a publicity stunt by bringing his friend, the "human fly," to climb the face of the store building. Unfortunately the "human fly" is a wanted man, and when "The Law" comes calling, our hero must make the climb himself. At each ledge he encounters new difficulties, climaxing in the famous 'clock scene.' 

ABOUT THE RESTORATION: The DCP of Safety Last! was created from a 2K transfer of an original nitrate print. Over 300 hours of digital work went into cleaning the image. Composer Carl Davis then re-synced his original score to the restored master to create the best possible match for theatrical presentation.

Daryl Duke | 1978 | Canada | 106 Min

This Canadian "sleeper"  stars Elliott Gould as teller Miles Cullen, who figures out psycho Harry Reikle's (Christopher Plummer) scheme to rob his bank several days ahead of time. Cullen providently squirrels away 50,000 dollars in a safety-deposit box before Reikle strikes. After the robbery, the papers report the amount of the bank's loss. Reikle realizes that there's 50,000 extra bucks floating around that he hasn't gotten his hands on. The soft-spoken but sadistic Reikle puts the screws on Cullen to fork over the dough -- but Cullen has lost the deposit-box key. Also featured is Susannah York as the fluctuating-loyalty heroine, and a very young and hairy John Candy. Future L.A. Confidential scribe Curtis Hanson loosely adapted the Danish novel Think of a Number, by Anders Bodelsen. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Born October 21, 1929, Duke spent time laboring at a Canadian sawmill as a young man. At the age of 24, he joined Vancouver's premier CBC affiliate, CBUT, where he helped produce the network's first television programs in December 1953, then transferred to the Toronto branch of the CBC in 1958. From that seat, Duke produced additional television specials and documentaries, including episodes of This Hour Has Seven Days and Wojeck. When the late '60s arrived, Duke parlayed the success of his Canadian endeavors into a Hollywood-based television career.

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