Comic actor Harold Lloyd (1893-1971) is cornered in Hal Roach's "An Eastern Westerner."
Lloyd had none of the vaudeville training of Charlie
Chaplin or Buster Keaton, the two other geniuses of silent film comedies. But Lloyd
made more films than the two of them put together.
Only a handful of his prodigious output - such as "Safety Last!" - could be classified
as "thrill comedies," yet they defined Lloyd as a film figure for the
remainder of his career and beyond.
By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan