Mental Floss on Twitter: "The clock featuring a man hanging from his hands is a sly reference to silent film star Harold Lloyd's famous scene in 'Safety Last' (1923). #BackToTheFuture #MFMovieMonday https://t.co/tmbBLZXwIC" /
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in the opening shot of "Back to the Future" (1985), we see an assortment of clocks. One of them is a re-creation of Harold Lloyd's famous clock-dangling scene from 1923. This is
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In the opening credits of 'Back To The Future', the man hanging from the clock in Doc Brown's room is foreshadowing the end of the movie where Doc is hanging from the
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Movie Details on Twitter: "In the opening scene of Back to The Future, one of the clocks shows a man hanging onto a clock, foreshadowing the scene later in the film https://t.co/OgJ8BxzEXh" /
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