I grew up assuming all black and white movies were boring. Fortunately, through my movie buff husband I’ve learned the error of my ways. I’ve now seen Sunset Boulevard, High Noon, Casablanca, and Arsenic and Old Lace to name a few, and enjoyed them all.
The biggest surprise delight for me was Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last!. I, of course, new Charlie Chaplin was a famous silent film star, but apparently there were loads more including Harold Lloyd.
Safety Last! is a cute romcom about a young man who leaves his small town for the big city. He wants to earn enough money to marry the sweetheart he left behind but finds that’s not as easy of a task as he’d hoped. My young son and I, both skeptics of an old silent film that was made nearly 100 years ago, watched it with my husband recently. We laughed out loud numerous times watching Lloyd’s antics. In fact, I’d never heard my son do deep belly laughs watching a movie. Listening to him and watching the movie was a double pleasure.
If you’re in need of a fun family movie, I highly recommend watching Safety Last!. A benefit of it being from 1923: it’s in the public domain! You can find it for free to view on YouTube:
