Feet First
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| Feet First | |
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 Original US release poster |
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| Directed by | Clyde Bruckman |
| Produced by | Harold Lloyd |
| Starring | Harold Lloyd (Harold Horne) Barbara Kent (Barbara) Robert McWade (Mr. Tanner) |
| Music by | Mischa Bakaleinikoff (uncredited) Claude Lapham (uncredited) |
| Cinematography | Henry N. Kohler Walter Lundin |
| Editing by | Bernard W. Burton |
| Distributed by | Paramount |
| Release date(s) | November 8, 1930 (USA) |
| Running time | 93 min |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Feet First is a 1930 comedy film starring Harold Lloyd, a very popular comedian during the 1920's and early 1930's. It was Lloyd's second sound (All-Talking) feature.
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[edit] Plot
Harold Horne, an ambitious shoe salesman in Honolulu, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter (played by Barbara 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.
[edit] Trivia
- In the original 1930 release, as he finds himself aloft on the exterior of the skyscraper, he attempts to obtain the assistance of a gormless black janitor, whom he nicknames 'Charcoal'(Willie Best; 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'.
- Although the skyscraper sequence used techniques similar to that on Lloyd's most famous film Safety Last (with a facade constructed on a tall building) the penultimate sequence uses back-projection.
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| Silent | A Sailor-Made Man (1921) • Grandma's Boy (1922) • Doctor Jack (1922) • Safety Last! (1923) • Why Worry? (1923) • Girl Shy (1924) • Hot Water (1924) • The Freshman (1925) • For Heaven's Sake (1926) • The Kid Brother (1927) • Speedy (1928) • Welcome Danger (1929, released 2005) |
| Sound | Welcome Danger (1929) • Feet First (1930) • Movie Crazy (1932) • The Cat's-Paw (1934) • The Milky Way (1936) • Professor Beware (1938) • The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) |
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