The story goes that one day Harold Lloyd noticed a crowd
of people gathered on the street looking up at what was then one of Los
Angeles’s tallest buildings. When he looked up, he saw a man scaling the
outside of the building with no net and no safety lines. The man was Bill
Strothers, who would take the role of Lloyd’s pal in Safety Last, a movie written to satisfy Lloyd’s desire to feature a
man climbing that building in a feature film.
