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Stock Clock Hand Hang

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19 feature instances
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Stock Clock Hand Hang	comment	Our characters get themselves into a very precarious, dangerous situation. They try to flee from danger and often they have no choice but to climb up in a cool Clock Tower and the showdown happens atop. Invariably, they find themselves clutching a giant hand of the enormous clock and eventually they are hanging by their fingertips. The clock hands are usually big enough to sit or stand on, but as the clock hands move, people are in danger to slide off of them. The movement of the hands is used for dramatic tension as they slowly tick into a position that will dump the character off to his doom. It adds moment of drama as they are hanging on for dear life as the hand slowly turns until they'll have no choice to slide off the hand and fall off. Sometimes this effect is used by the villain as a deathtrap. The characters can: roll, pull themselves up and reach a window or window ledge and climb inside fall, but somehow they manage to clutch the dial or something else on the tower be taken by their hand and pulled up by a friendly character fall, Disney Death style (they survive the fall) fall, Disney Villain Death style (they die) This trope makes for a great drama during a chase scene, fight scene or any other showdown. And it's visually stunning. The very iconic image from the Signature Scene of Safety Last! is the Trope Maker, and it's one of the most recognisable images of the silent era of movies. Lots of examples of this trope are a direct homage to the movie. If the work is set in London, the showdown will most likely happen on the Great Clock of the Palace of Westminster.note The Clock Tower at the north end of the Palace of Westminster is sometimes incorrectly called Big Ben (Big Ben is just the name of the bell, not the clock, nor the tower). Subtrope of Clock Tower. See also Rooftop Confrontation.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_19d740d8	comment	In the final chase scene of The Great Mouse Detective, Basil of Baker Street hangs on the giant hand of a tower clock when he fights with the villain, Professor Padraic Ratigan.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_2273d9c2	comment	In the much earlier Jackie Chan film, Project A (first movie), a chase scene have Dragon Ma (Chan) being pursued by the main villain's henchmen to the top of a clock tower, where a fight scene inevitably leads to Man falling out of the clock and hanging onto it's hands. Ma ends up falling from the clock's side, a few storeys down through two layers of tarp awning, a shot which Chan insists on making "three" takes. According to Chan himself, that shot was included in the movie as a direct homage to Safety Last! above.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_2bbcacd9	comment	A later Looney Tunes short, "Skyscraper Caper", had Daffy Duck do this when he falls from a very tall construction site. He catches onto one of the hands of a clock tower and looks down at how far up he still is. But then the clock breaks down, causing Daffy to resume falling.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_2c9b0bb4	comment	The pilot of Moonlighting has Maddie sliding off the clock hand and accidentally kicking the panel around 9 o'clock (containing some stolen diamonds) with her high heel.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_2e2efbf9	comment	In Back to the Future, the 1955 Doc comes up with a plan to send Marty back to 1985 by channeling the electricity from a lightning strike that's set to hit the clock tower. On the night of the thunderstorm, a bolt strikes a tree branch and disconnects the cables the Doc has set up to capture the lightning. At the last minute, he has to go up onto the clock tower and reconnect the cables. When the platform he's standing on breaks, he grabs onto the clock hands to keep from falling to the ground. Earlier in the film, in a bit of Foreshadowing, one of Doc's clocks is shaped like Harold Lloyd from Safety Last!.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_64682b25	comment	In The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), the hero Richard Hannay attempts to halt the clock's progress (to prevent a linked bomb detonating) by hanging from the minute hand of its western dial.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_761d5076	comment	Oscar's poster has Snaps hang from the hands of a large clock, referring to the day's mounting insanity.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_77be988d	comment	When Thief of Time was released, the image on the display stand showed its author Terry Pratchett hanging from a clock.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_7c038c18	comment	In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Quantum Boogaloo", the band Bowling for Soup slide off a giant clock during a music video.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_8667f7b0	comment	The Dad's Army episode "Time on my hands" has a variation - a German pilot bails out of his plane over Walmington-on-Sea and gets his parachute tangled around the hands of the town hall clock before he hits the ground.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_8d81f086	comment	In one episode of Monk, a body was placed on a hand of a clock, falling off the tower when the killer had an alibi.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_90b916ba	comment	In an episode of Batman: The Animated Series, the Clock King kidnaps Mayor Hill in retribution for his bankruptcy and ties him to the hands of a giant clock on the 7th anniversary of the event. Both Mayor and Batman hangs from the giant hand and the giant dial.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_913c5062	comment	Mr. Magoo: In the cartoon "The Explosive Mr. Magoo", Mr. Magoo steps out of a building window, thinking it was an elevator, and happens to step onto the second hand of the clock. When he finally tips over and falls, he thinks the elevator operator is being too rough. Fortunately, the awnings at the entrance break his fall.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_9e32f21b	comment	During the climax of The Castle of Cagliostro, Big Bad Count Cagliostro catches up to the heroes and captures Princess Clarisse, forcing Lupin to give up the family's royal rings in exchange for her life. But when he doesn't honor his end of the bargain and attempts to off Lupin, Clarisse tries to jump off the tower and take him down with her. However, the Count stops their fall by jabbing his sword into the tower's stone wall, just above the giant clock hand. While hanging, he kicks off Clarisse before climbing back onto the tower to solve the riddle behind his family's long-lost treasure.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_a183d57f	comment	Parodied in Futurama, wherein Fry ends up hanging from a number on a giant digital clock. He's fine until the number changes from 6 to 7, making his horizontal hold halfway up disappear.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_a2eee785	comment	In the movie Shanghai Knights (a sequel to Shanghai Noon), the heroes find themselves in Victorian London. While Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) fights inside the Great Clock of the Palace of Westminster, Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) spends the time crawling on the giant hand of the tower clock. Chon and his opponent fall off the window. Roy manages to catch Chon's hand and they both hang for their lives.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_abfcff6a	comment	In Rocky and Bullwinkle, the culmination of the Box Tops arc has the characters going on a chase throughout the tallest building in town, which culminates in a showdown in the mechanism room of the clock tower. At the end of this, Bullwinkle ends up dangling from the clock hands, visible to the whole town, and the hand he's hanging from moves closer and closer to vertical...
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_b36b992f	comment	Hugo shows the iconic part of Safety Last! where the main character hangs from clock hands in a movie theater. Later, Hugo escapes from the Inspector by crawling out of a large clock and hanging from its hands. The scene is also shown on the poster.
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Stock Clock Hand Hang / int_c488b782	comment	Harold Lloyd's character in Safety Last! clutches the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic.
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The Castle of Cagliostro / int_21dd66de	type	Stock Clock Hand Hang
Back to the Future / int_21dd66de	type	Stock Clock Hand Hang
Hugo / int_21dd66de	type	Stock Clock Hand Hang
Oscar (1991) / int_21dd66de	type	Stock Clock Hand Hang
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Safety Last! / int_21dd66de	type	Stock Clock Hand Hang
Moonlighting / int_21dd66de	type	Stock Clock Hand Hang
Silent Hill: Downpour (Video Game) / int_21dd66de	type	Stock Clock Hand Hang
Mr. Magoo / int_21dd66de	type	Stock Clock Hand Hang
Rocky and Bullwinkle / int_21dd66de	type	Stock Clock Hand Hang
The Great Mouse Detective / int_21dd66de	type	Stock Clock Hand Hang

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