Directed by Buster Keaton • 1925 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Ruth Dwyer
It’s a race to the altar when down-on-his-luck stockbroker Jimmie Shannon (Buster Keaton) learns that he stands to inherit seven million dollars if he gets married by seven p.m. on his twenty-seventh birthday—which happens to be that very same day. With the clock ticking, Jimmie takes out an advertisement for a bride—and soon finds himself being pursued by five hundred would-be-wives in a dazzling extended chase that climaxes with one of Keaton’s most daring and memorable set-pieces, in which the Great Stone Face must outrun an avalanche of tumbling boulders.
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Battling Butler
Directed by Buster Keaton • 1926 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Sally O’NeilCited by Buster Keaton as one of his personal favorites among his own films, this knockabout adaptation of a Broadway play revolves around a case of mistaken identity between two Alfred Butlers—o...
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The General
Directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman • 1926 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen CavenderConsistently 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 e...
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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Directed by Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner • 1928 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuireSTEAMBOAT BILL, JR. was Buster Keaton’s last independent silent comedy and also one of his finest. He stars as the sensitive son of a gruff riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence...
