The Scarecrow
Really wonderful. So much classic Buster material I don't know where to start.Watch Buster's supreme control in doing a take to set something up and then another to payoff the...
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The High Sign
THE HIGH SIGN was Buster Keaton's first independent effort but he believed the film retained too much of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's style of comedy and not enough of his own. He shelved the film and made ONE WEEK instead. THE HIGH SIGN was released only after Keaton broke his ankle and Joseph M. Schenck needed a film to...Start your free trial to watch
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Convict 13
CONVICT 13 pushes boundaries with the darkness of its comedy, particularly the scene in which Buster Keaton is about to be hanged in prison while his fellow inmates sit as spectators cheering on the proceedings with concessions sold as if it were a baseball game.Start your free trial to watch
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One Week
Buster Keaton's first masterpiece, ONE WEEK is a joke title lost on most twenty-first century viewers unaware of Elinor Glyn's notorious novel "Three Weeks." The front of a two-story house collapsing on Buster, with the window-opening miraculously preventing his injury, that was first experimented with in BACK STAGE and...Start your free trial to watch
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Neighbors
NEIGHBORS is notable for its acrobatic climax involving "The Flying Escalantes" (Buster Keaton would enlist their talents again for his 1934 two-reeler ALLEZ-OOP) as well as the appearance of Joe Keaton portraying (naturally) Buster's father. Virginia Fox, his most frequent leading lady, makes her first appearance here. She...Start your free trial to watch
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The Haunted House
Buster Keaton, on the run, hides in an abandoned house where a visiting opera company of "Faust" also seeks refuge. The film's great moment is a dream sequence in which Buster dreams he is an angel ascending to heaven. At Saint Peter's gate he is rejected and slides down a chute to hell where he discovers...Start your free trial to watch
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Hard Luck
Long believed lost and admittedly a lesser work, HARD LUCK was nonetheless Keaton's favorite of all his short comedies because it contained the greatest single laugh of his career. This version is the 1987 reconstruction (sans ending) produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill.Start your free trial to watch
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The Boat
THE BOAT, conceived as a companion piece to ONE WEEK, finds Buster Keaton building a thirty-five foot family cruiser. It was Keaton's most commercially successful silent two-reel comedy and ranks among his best works. The classic sequence of this boat launch has Buster (the proud owner and captain) standing at the nose of the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Paleface
THE PALEFACE is Buster Keaton's comic exploration of the Western dramas that were popular in American cinemas at the time. A group of oil prospectors are swindling a group of Native Americans out of their own lands. The Indian chief proclaims to his tribe: "Kill the first white man who comes through the gate." Naturally,...Start your free trial to watch
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Cops
One of Buster Keaton's greatest and most famous comedies, COPS is universally enjoyed for the inventive comedy and amazing chase sequences. However, its darker aspects (Keaton's use of an anarchists bomb risked painful reminders of the horse and wagon, similar to the one Buster drives, that carried a bomb into New York city's...Start your free trial to watch
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The Frozen North
A parody of the Western melodramas of William S. Hart, THE FROZEN NORTH was filmed partly on location near Truckee, California, and the intertitles drew from Robert Service's "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." Charles Chaplin later used Truckee for his masterpiece THE GOLD RUSH and drew upon "McGrew" for his...Start your free trial to watch
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Day Dreams
DAY DREAMS has as its structure a series of comparisons between how Buster Keatons's sweetheart (Renee Adoree, later a prominent film star) interprets Buster's letters to her versus the reality of his efforts to make good. Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is believed to have directed some of this film which went into production as...Start your free trial to watch
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