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2007
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He began life as the child of a physically abusive and alcoholic vaudeville entertainer father, but somehow survived this...
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2004
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In an attempt to boost his then-flagging career, comedian Buster Keaton starred in the 1935 French production Le Roi de...
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Buster Garnier/Jim Le Balafre
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2004
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2004
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2002
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20th Century Fox was one of the world's biggest movie studios in the '30s and '40s, with an impressive roster including some...
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2000
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In the early years of cinema, nothing kept audiences in stitches quite like a good dose of physical comedy -- affectionately...
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1998
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This fascinating program takes us on a star-studded trip down memory lane. Relive the Golden Age of Hollywood. Featuring...
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1990
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Originally telecast on PBS as a three-part American Masters presentation, Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow uses film clips...
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1989
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The final part of this series deals with Buster Keaton's triumphant return to the movies. ~ Rovi...
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1989
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Part two of the series deals with what happens to Buster Keaton once he becomes embroiled in a bad studio contract situation....
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1989
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This first part of the series covers the early portion of Buster Keaton's career. ~ Rovi...
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1989
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Produced for Britain's Thames television in 1979, Hollywood is a 13-part overview of the silent film era, lovingly assembled...
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1988
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1985
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This video features some of the most hilarious gags ever cooked up by practical joke-meister Alan Funt and his gang. ~...
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1985
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Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel and Hardy are shown...
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1970
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This 60-minute pastiche of silent film footage is narrated by humorist Henry Morgan. While the producers clearly worship...
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1968
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This WW II comedy centers upon a hapless German general (played by Buster Keaton in one of his last roles) who is stationed...
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Gen. Von Kassler
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1967
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Erronius
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1966
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1966
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In this comedy, a hapless Army sergeant's plans to marry are temporarily delayed after he accidentally ends up launched into...
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1965
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini is considered to be the strangest of the "Beach Party" movies. Frankie (Frankie Avalon) is off in...
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Bwana
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1965
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Part of American-International's "Beach Party" series, Beach Blanket Bingo was directed by William Asher. Frankie...
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1965
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"The Railrodder" is a silent comedy short which showcases the style that made Buster Keaton famous. ~ Rovi...
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1965
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Buster Keaton Rides Again examines the making of The Railrodder, in which Keaton plays a man who rides the rails across...
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1965
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The man
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1965
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Chief Rotten Eagle
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1964
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This compilation film is one of the few Robert Youngson productions to incorporate sound as well as silent excerpts. All the...
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1964
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With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies."...
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Jimmy the Crook
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1963
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The fourth of Oscar-winning short-subject director Youngson's comedy compilations (the earlier ones were Golden Age of...
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1963
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1963
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1963
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1963
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This 25-minute sales film starring Buster Keaton was finally rediscovered in 2000. In his later years, when Keaton was...
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1962
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1962
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Twilight Zone's only foray into old-time slapstick comedy, this episode stars the great Buster Keaton as Woodrow Mulligan, a...
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Woodrow Mulligan
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1961
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This is one in a series of entertaining cinematic compilations by Robert Youngson that reviews aspects of the history of film...
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1961
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MGM's all-star 1960 filmization of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn surgically removes the sociological subtext of Mark...
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1960
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Robert Youngson's second feature-length compilation of silent comedy highlights (the first was The Golden Age of Comedy),...
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1959
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Every so often, the prestigious 1950s CBS anthology Playhouse 90 would digress from its "live" format and offer a sumptuously...
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1958
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This documentary video offers a variety of clips from the silent screen's funniest men. ~ Rovi...
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1958
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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"The Silent Partner" is, along with John Ford's "Rookie of the Year", perhaps the best-known episode of the TV anthology...
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1955
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London, 1914. Calvero (Charles Chaplin), a once-great music hall comedian, weaves drunkenly home to his shabby flat. As he...
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Piano Accompanist
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1953
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1952
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1950
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This hastily assembled "feature" is comprised of several episodes of an early-1950s TV series starring Buster Keaton. One of...
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1950
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Hickey
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1949
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Adapted from a play by Honore de Balzac, Lovable Cheat offers a veritable smorgasbord of Hollywood's top character actors....
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1949
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The George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Merton of the Movies was previously filmed in 1923 with Glenn Hunter, and in 1932...
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Technical Advisor
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1947
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Buster Keaton plays a 20th-century Bluebeard as he is convinced to take a rocket to the moon in this comedy. ~ Kristie...
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1946
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In this western comedy, the mis-adventures of a bumbling range rider are chronicled. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1946
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In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and...
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1945
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1945
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Louise Allbritton, a talented but neglected film star of the 1940s, plays the oldest sister in a large motherless family....
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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1941
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1941
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Mobster Louie the Wolf (Eddie Featherstone) sends an unsuspecting handyman (Buster Keaton) to gather up the collection money...
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1941
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Buster Keaton invents a novel solution to paying alimony in this Columbia two-reeler: He decides to let his obnoxious ex-wife...
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1940
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This is the first of two filmed adaptations of Al Capp's classic comic strip, in which the title hillbilly (Granville Owen)...
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1940
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Like Prohibition, Franklin-Blank Productions' The Villain Still Pursued Her is best regarded as a "noble experiment". Using...
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William Dalton
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1940
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1940
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Buster Keaton is sadly miscast in this two-reel comedy about the capture of a jewel thief. Mainly nonstop slapstick, the...
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1940
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Whether in the newsroom or on board a speeding train, aspiring reporter Buster Keaton creates havoc in this funny short. To...
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1940
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Nothing But Pleasure was hardly any pleasure at all. The third of Buster Keaton's ten two-reel comedies for Columbia went...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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1940
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Hollywood Cavalcade was a fictionalized history of silent films and the growth of the movie industry. Don Ameche portrays a...
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1939
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This Civil War comedy, related in flashbacks, depicts the misadventures of Buster Keaton as he tries to avoid getting killed...
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1939
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The first, and best, of ten comedy two-reelers Buster Keaton was to make for the Columbia short subject department, Pest From...
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1939
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In this entry in the "Jones Family" comedy series, the Jones have just arrived from a Hollywood vacation when they receive a...
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Screen Story
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1939
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The Jones family goes to Tinseltown in this entry in the series. They go so Father can attend an American Legion meeting....
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Screen Story
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1939
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Director
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1938
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Director
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1938
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Technical Advisor
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1938
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1937
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1937
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1937
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When Buster Keaton goes to work as an assistant to a carnival magician, the results turn out to be less than magical....
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1936
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1936
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Elmer
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1936
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Screen Story, Elmer
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1936
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Scoutmaster Elmer Brown (Buster Keaton) loses his heart to the pretty carhop (Lona Andre) who works in a drive-in diner....
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Elmer Brown
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1936
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In this comedy, a wealthy but inept yachtsman (Buster Keaton) sails to Spain and goes looking for love in all the wrong...
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Leander Proudfoot
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1936
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Producer/director Mack Sennett and actor Buster Keaton, two masters of silent-film comedy, teamed up for the first time with...
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Milton
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1935
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Buster Keaton is on the lam from the law in this Educational two-reeler. He attempts to elope with his fiancée...
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1935
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Knockabout slapstick dominates this two-reel Navy comedy from Educational. Naval recruit Elmer (Buster Keaton) is seemingly...
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Elmer
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1935
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Elmer (Buster Keaton) answers an ad for a handyman job and starts working for an older woman (Jane Jones) and her niece...
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Elmer
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1935
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Dialogue only punctuates this inventive, near-silent two-reeler starring the great Buster Keaton. He plays the titular Elmer,...
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Elmer
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1935
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Buster Keaton began his career in vaudeville as a child, starring with his father Joe and mother Myra as The Three Keatons....
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Jim
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1935
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Elmer
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1934
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Dumped by his fiancé, a young man (Buster Keaton) drives from Boston out West determined to start a new life. He winds up in...
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Wally
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1934
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In this comedy, Jimmy Potts (Jimmy Durante) and Elmer J. Butts (Buster Keaton, Jr.) come up with a scheme to start up a beer...
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Elmer Butts
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1933
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Buster Keaton's best sound feature casts the Great Stone Face as Professor Post, a naïve college pedant who mistakenly...
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Prof. Timolean Zanders Post
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1932
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Elmer Tuttle
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1932
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Buster Keaton's career was at its nadir in 1937 -- he had been reduced to making quick and dirty low-budget two-reel comedies...
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Director
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1932
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1932
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Buster Keaton once described his 1931 vehicle Sidewalks of New York as "God-awful"; it's hardly that bad, though admittedly...
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Homer Van Dine Harmon
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1931
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Based on the stage comedy by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan (previously filmed in 1920), Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a curious...
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Producer, Reginald Irving
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1931
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1931
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1931
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1931
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Buster Keaton's second starring talkie finds him cast as wealthy, pampered Elmer, who heads down to the local employment...
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Producer, Elmer Stuyvesant
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1930
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Elmer Butts
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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Elmer Edgemont
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1929
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This is one of the last films from Buster Keaton's classic period, before the coming of sound and interference from MGM...
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Luke Shannon
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1928
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Not the best of Buster Keaton's silents, Steamboat Bill, Jr. nonetheless contains some of Keaton's best and most spectacular...
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Willie Canfield
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1928
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Stunts
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1928
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The silent comedy feature College stars Buster Keaton as a scholarly young man who doesn't know beans about sports. When he...
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Ronald
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1927
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Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern railroad engineer who loves his train engine, The General, almost as much as he...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter, Johnnie Gray
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1927
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Battling Butler has to be the strangest of Buster Keaton's silent features. Based on the musical comedy of the same name, the...
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Director, Alfred Butler
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1926
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Director, Screen Story, Friendless
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1925
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Buster Keaton plays a young lawyer who will inherit $7 million at 7 o'clock on his 27th birthday--provided he is married....
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Director, Jimmie Shannon
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1925
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Director, Rollo Treadway
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1924
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The enduring power of this silent-era comedy classic from director/star Buster Keaton can be ascertained simply by...
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Director, The Boy/Sherlock Jr.
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1924
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Buster Keaton's third starring feature (discounting 1920's The Saphead, which was not conceived with Keaton in mind), Our...
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Director, Willie McKay
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1923
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Thirty years after its release, Buster Keaton admitted that his first feature film was essentially three two-reel comedies...
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Director, The Boy
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1923
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Although The Balloonatic was one of Buster Keaton's final two-reelers before he graduated to feature-length comedies, it has...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1923
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When Buster (Buster Keaton) is spurned by his sweetheart, he decides to forget by sailing around the world. He posts a letter...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1923
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The homely Longfellow poem about The Village Blacksmith"will never seem the same after viewing this two-reel spoof....
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Director, Screenwriter, Blacksmith's assistant
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1922
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Comic filmmaker Buster Keaton always had a love of gadgetry, and that interest in all things mechanical is allowed full...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1922
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Although Cops is one of the all-time great two-reelers, its creator, Buster Keaton, never thought much of it. He felt it was...
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Director, Screenwriter, The Young Man
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1922
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Buster Keaton stars in this two-reel comedy as the captive of hostile Indians. His captors tie him to a stake and prepare him...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1922
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Director, Screenwriter
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1922
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Buster Keaton collides head first with unholy matrimony in this hilarious two-reel comedy. A burly Irishwoman (Kate Price)...
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Director, Screenwriter, The Husband
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1922
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Director, Screenwriter
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1922
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This two-reeler features the famous theater sequence in which Buster Keaton plays every role, from the stage actors to the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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This two-reeler is one big chase film -- or, rather, it's two chases in one film. A drifter (Buster Keaton) is already on the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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The first film that Buster Keaton made independently, High Sign portrays the filmmaker as a drifter in search of a job....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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The plucky little guy that comedian Buster Keaton portrayed throughout most of his two-reel silents is just about out of...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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While this isn't one of Buster Keaton's best two-reelers, it has some undeniably classic moments. Keaton plays a young bank...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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Skirts was a 2-reel comedy vehicle for the delightful Fay Tincher, here cast as an outspoken maidservant. When her employer's...
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1921
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In what is perhaps Buster Keaton's most fatalistic short subject, the comedian portrays a husband who has been diligently...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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Buster Keaton stars in the short black-and-white silent comedy The Neighbors, also known as Backyard and Mailbox. The story...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1920
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Buster Keaton's two-reel work in the early '20s was incredibly rich -- nearly every picture is funny and even the shorts that...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1920
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In Buster Keaton's second two-reel comedy to be released, he is golfing (though not very well) with a group of socialites. He...
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Director, Screenwriter, Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard
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1920
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The Saphead was based on the tried-and-true Winchell Smith stage comedy The New Henrietta, previously filmed in 1915 as...
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Bertie Van Alstyne, His Son
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1920
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One Week was the first Buster Keaton-directed film to be released to the public (The High Sign was made earlier but shelved...
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Director, Screenwriter, Man
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1920
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1920
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1919
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This two reeler is basically an excuse for Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle to make a mockery of various vaudeville turns and back...
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1919
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1919
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1918
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Long believed lost, the Fatty Arbuckle two-reeler Good Night, Nurse resurfaced in fragmentary form in the late 1970s. Seeking...
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1918
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1918
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Filmed in late December of 1917 and early January of 1918, the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle two-reeler The Bellboy was shipped to...
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1918
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Having shot his fist five Comique Film Corporation comedies in New York, star-director Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle moved his unit...
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1918
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1917
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This two-reeler by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle involves a man (Arbuckle) who escapes from his battle-axe wife Agnes Neilson by...
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1917
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Oh, Doctor! was the fifth of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's two-reelers for his own Comique Film Corporation (the unlettered...
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1917
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1917
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1917
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1917
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