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Buster Keaton
1) The general
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's The general is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Keaton stars as youthful dreamer Willie McKay, who travels westward on a rickety locomotive to claim his birthright, only to find that his inheritance is a shack. And he learns that the object of his affection (Keaton's real-life wife, Natalie Talmadge) is the daughter of a man with whom his family has been engaged in a long, violent feud. McKay's personal struggles are punctuated by brilliant slapstick setpieces that involve an exploding dam, raging...
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"This DVD collection presents films that Arbuckle and Keaton made for producer Joseph M. Schenck between 1917 and 1919; they are presented chronologically so we can watch Buster grow from Arbuckle's bit player to his full partner. Following the 1921 scandal that was inflamed by a publicity-seeking prosecutor and the tabloid press, Arbuckle's films were withdrawn from circulation in America, and the negatives were not preserved. The films in this collection...
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"The Cook": Arbuckle is a chef of all trades, and Keaton waits tables. When a tough guy annoys the pretty cashier, Keaton comes to her defense assisted by Luke the Dog, who steals the show as the canine defender of womanhood. "A Reckless Romeo": Arbuckle is an adventurous young husband exploring greener pastures. But his attempts at indiscretion at the Palisades Amusement Park are filmed by a newsreel cameraman and shown at the local movie house,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1033
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
None
Description
The final work over which he maintained creative control, this clever farce is the culmination of an extraordinary, decade-long run that produced some of the most innovative and enduring comedies of all time. Keaton plays a hapless newsreel cameraman desperate to impress both his new employer and his winsome office crush as he zigzags up and down Manhattan hustling for a scoop.
A loveable buffoon pretends to be a cameraman so he can be near a pretty...
8) The General
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
[The general] Rejected by the Confederate Army as unfit and taken fro a coward by his beloved, Annabelle Lee (marion Mack), young Johnnie Gray (Keaton) sets out to single-handedly win the war with the help of his cherished locomotive. [The playhouse] ... Keaton portrys every member of a stage company, the entire audience and an undisciplined chimp to boot. [Cops] is the quintessential chase film.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Three ages (Joseph M. Schenck, 1923): This clever parody of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance follows Keaton's hard-luck romantic misadventures throughout world history. The goat (Metro Pictures, 1921): Buster is mistaken for gunslinger Dead Eye Dan. My wife's relations (Comicque Film Co., 1922): A comedy of domestic turmoil that seems to reflect some of the tension between Keaton and the Talmadges, his in-laws at the time.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Seven chances (Buster Keaton Productions, 1925): Keaton stars as a romantically jinxed young man who must marry by 7:00 pm to inherit seven million dollars. Neighbors (Metro Pictures, 1920): Buster tries to woo his tenement sweetheart in spite of the barriers which stand between them. The balloonatic (Buster Keaton Productions, 1923): Buster is carried from an amusement park to the rustic country where he struggles ineptly for survival and stumbles...
13) Battling Butler
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
[Battling Butler] Alfred Butler, a fragile young man whose father sends him into the country where he hopes masculinity will blossom, is there mistaken for "Battling" Butler, a renowned prizefighter. Alfred carries on the ruse to impress a young lady, but his charade is soon complicated by the arrival of a true contender. [The haunted house] Buster takes refuge in a mansion rigged with a series of frightening booby traps. [The frozen North] Keaton...
14) The General
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Rejected by the Confederate army, and taken for a coward by his beloved, young Johnny Gray is given a chance to redeem himself when he wages a one-man war against Yankee spies who have stolen his locomotive.
16) Limelight
Series
Criterion collection volume 756
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director's most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
17) The saphead
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The saphead: Bertie Van Alstyne is the spoiled son of a powerful Wall Street financier : The High Sign: Buster is unwittingly involved in a radical secret society known as the Blinking Buzzards ; One Week: Keaton and his bride inherit a do-it-by-numbers pre-fab house, only somebody has mixed up the numbers.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a wily, witty, lying, lazy, cheating slave discovers that his master's son is in love with the girl next door, a virgin courtesan, he promises to help win her heart in exchange for his freedom. But the road to romance is blocked with stunning surprises, cunning disguises and the wildest chariot race ever!