Allez Oop
A good old-fashioned, read innocent, comedy from Buster Keaton. As usual in these comedies, the elements of timing and coincidence are supreme. Stone-faced Keaton, internally preoccupied but hardly emotionally revealing,...
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The Gold Ghost
Buster Keaton's first Educational short was a strong start to the series. The story gives Buster ample gag opportunities of which he makes the most. Some of the rough and tumble is not his forte but the little incidentals and throwaway gags are plentiful. For instance, a gun he finds in the Sheriff's office alone with the...Start your free trial to watch
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Allez Oop
The most obvious parallel to ALLEZ OOP is COLLEGE, where Buster Keaton's attempts at various athletic events are a disaster until his girl is threatened. Then, in a total reversal, he performs the same feats brilliantly while trying to effect a rescue. The girl here is Dorothy Sebastian, his leading lady five years earlier in...Start your free trial to watch
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Palooka from Paducah
A simple plot, indeed, but the sight of a hirsute Buster Keaton and three other Keatons in the cast makes it a lot of fun. There is an obvious rapport between the Keatons, established over years of working together on the vaudeville circuit. Buster repeated the hillbilly theme two years later in LOVE NEST...Start your free trial to watch
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One Run Elmer
In reality, Buster Keaton was a lifelong baseball fanatic. ONE RUN ELMER must have been a pleasure to make. The game itself is almost entirely silent and incorporated many of the gags Keaton used in the charity baseball matches which he helped to arrange. They often featured of a host of fellow comedians. The gags include an...Start your free trial to watch
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Hayseed Romance
The obvious parallel to HAYSEED ROMANCE is Buster Keaton's 1922 silent short, MY WIFE'S RELATIONS. Jane Jones is similar in build to Kate Price, Buster's memorable mother-in-law in the earlier film. Their rough handling of him is similar in both films. A plate-smashing sequence was also featured in the Stan Laurel and Oliver...Start your free trial to watch
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Tars and Stripes
TARS AND STRIPES seems to be an example of the old Mack Sennett trick of creating a story around a setting where permission to film has been granted, in this case a U.S. Navy compound. The running gag of always returning to the rig and Buster Keaton's attempts to get food always being thwarted work well....Start your free trial to watch
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The E-Flat Man
Not the most memorable short Buster Keaton ever did, THE E-FLAT MAN was instead a case of missed opportunities. The scene on the train is a total anti-climax. Once aboard, someone locks them in. The camera pans to reveal that their chosen boxcar is refrigerated. Several possible outcomes spring to mind but the rather weak one...Start your free trial to watch
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Three on a Limb
There is very little plot in THREE ON A LIMB and no reason for Buster Keaton's appearance as a superannuated Scout except to demonstrate his skill at setting fires. However, this does lead to a solo routine with a fire hose. Although easily the oldest cinematic gag (being the basis of what is generally accepted as the very...Start your free trial to watch
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Grand Slam Opera
Parodying the Major Bowes Amateur Hour radio show (a forerunner of television's Gong Show), GRAND SLAM OPERA is a comedic tour-de-force with ample displays of Buster Keaton's dancing and slapstick skills. Although Buster contributed sequences and gags to nearly every film he appeared in, GRAND SLAM OPERA...Start your free trial to watch
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Jail Bait
Writer on all of the 1937 shorts, Paul Girard Smith has previously worked with Buster Keaton on GO WEST and THE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK. The cheapness of the Educationals actually helps in JAIL BAIT. After all, neither newspaper offices nor prisons are known for their opulence. An obvious Keaton gag is the double-uniform scene....Start your free trial to watch
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Ditto
Leonard Maltin, whilst asserting that Buster Keaton's sound shorts are far from poor, cites DITTO as one of his worst mainly due to the last gag with the girls being done with their backs to us. Although the identical height and dress of each girl and Buster's reaction make the gag obvious, an added punch would have been to...Start your free trial to watch
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Love Nest on Wheels
LOVE NEST ON WHEELS was Buster Keaton's swan song for Educational Films Corporation of America (which was to go bust in 1939). Perhaps because of this, the film is full of family and friends. No fewer than three of Buster's family appear, as well as the ever-reliable Bud Jamison and Al St. John, his old...Start your free trial to watch
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Recent Reviews
Allez Oop
Mediocre rehashing of old gags from better silent films. Keaton had trouble transitioning to sound films due to lack of artistic freedom.
The Gold Ghost
excellent!! Very funny !!
Tars and Stripes
The best thing about this short is that there are barely any spoken lines. But, Buster always gets a fiver.
Jail Bait
Probably the best of the Educational shorts, with clever gags and ripe with pathos, since the girl of Buster's dreams doesn't seem to like him...thus ending with an "awww, poor...