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An ambitious shoe salesman who unknowingly meets his boss's daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon has to try to hide his true circumstances.An ambitious shoe salesman who unknowingly meets his boss's daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon has to try to hide his true circumstances.An ambitious shoe salesman who unknowingly meets his boss's daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon has to try to hide his true circumstances.
Lillian Leighton
- Mrs. Tanner
- (as Lillianne Leighton)
Alec B. Francis
- Mr. Carson
- (as Alec Francis)
Willie Best
- Charcoal - Janitor
- (as Sleep 'n' Eat)
Nick Copeland
- Man Arguing with Friend
- (uncredited)
James Finlayson
- Painter
- (uncredited)
Sydney Jarvis
- Window Dresser
- (uncredited)
Buster Phelps
- Little Boy
- (uncredited)
Paul Gerard Smith
- Seasick Passenger
- (uncredited)
Leo Willis
- Truck Driver
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia"Feet First" was the sixth most popular movie at the U.S box office for 1930.
- GoofsDuring his climb up the side of a skyscraper, Harold gets off a painter's trolley onto a closed window awning, which his weight opens up leaving him hanging from the edge. He climbs onto the top of the awning and finds the bottom of a rope from a painters cradle. It is just level with the top of the awning in long shot, but then in a close up it's then seen near the bottom of the awning, then at the original length in a long shot. The awning collapses leaving Harold clinging onto the window sill he then starts to climb up the rope to the next window, but suddenly the rope disappears for an instant and then its back.
- Quotes
Harold Horne: I was just practicing to be a salesman, Mr. Endicott.
Mr. Endicott: You'll never make a salesman. Salesmanship is 98% personality and that's something you haven't got.
Harold Horne: Oh, yes I have! Look!
Mr. Endicott: Aw, that's not personality. That's stupidity!
- Alternate versionsTelevision prints are edited for content purposes, eliminating some racist ethnic humor. The uncensored version is only available through the Harold Lloyd Trust.
- ConnectionsFeatured in World of Comedy (1962)
- SoundtracksAloha Oe
(1908) (uncredited)
Music by Queen Liliuokalani
Played by a band as the ship leaves the Honolulu harbor
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Deja Vu
Lloyd's career, like that of Keaton's, was irreparably damaged by the advent of sound, and this film is a fairly good example of why he failed to survive the transition. While the physical comedy is as funny as it was in his silent movies, the verbal comedy is, for Lloyd, one almighty pratfall. He clearly realised he needed something to amend for this shortcoming and, with a hint of desperation, harked backed to Safety Last (1923), one of his greatest silent films, by repeating the entire scaling the outside of a skyscraper sequence.
Lloyd plays a lowly shoe salesman who falls for a woman he believes is the daughter of the wealthy owner of the shoe store he works for but who is actually his secretary. Lloyd inadvertently manages to end up as a stowaway on the boat which his beloved and her boss are travelling and attempts to pass himself off as a wealthy young businessman while trying to avoid the ship's crew.
For most of the film the laughs are pretty strained. To be fair the film isn't particularly bad, but it falls so far below Lloyd's previous standards that you end up believing that it is. The finale in this film is almost as thrilling as the one in Safety Last, but it's just a repeat (without a musical score) and it smacks of desperation on the part of both Lloyd and his studio.
Lloyd plays a lowly shoe salesman who falls for a woman he believes is the daughter of the wealthy owner of the shoe store he works for but who is actually his secretary. Lloyd inadvertently manages to end up as a stowaway on the boat which his beloved and her boss are travelling and attempts to pass himself off as a wealthy young businessman while trying to avoid the ship's crew.
For most of the film the laughs are pretty strained. To be fair the film isn't particularly bad, but it falls so far below Lloyd's previous standards that you end up believing that it is. The finale in this film is almost as thrilling as the one in Safety Last, but it's just a repeat (without a musical score) and it smacks of desperation on the part of both Lloyd and his studio.
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- JoeytheBrit
- Jan 1, 2010
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- Der Traumtänzer
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- Budget
- $647,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.20 : 1
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