Directed by Buster Keaton • 1924 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton
Reality and movie fantasy merge to brilliantly surreal effect in one of Buster Keaton’s most formally innovative features—a whirlwind of astonishing optical tricks and meta-cinematic invention. He plays a lovelorn projectionist who daydreams himself into the movies he is showing—at one point literally walking through the screen and into the film! While dreaming he is Arthur Conan Doyle’s master detective, our hero snoops out brilliant discoveries while trying to rescue the girl he loves.
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Go West
Directed by Buster Keaton 1925 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen MyersNotable for its streak of sweet sentimentality—rare in a Buster Keaton feature—this endearing slapstick western features the filmmaker-star as an idealistic young man (known as Friendless) wh...
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Seven Chances
Directed by Buster Keaton • 1925 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Ruth DwyerIt’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-seve...
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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...
