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Buster Keaton
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Buster Keaton - what members say
review by from London
A masterpiece 3 July 2004
review by from London, England
Timeless comedy? 7 March 2005
review by from Lawford, Essex, England
Classic Keaton 11 May 2005
Buster Keaton - filmography
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Film
(1965)
Starring: Buster Keaton, James Karen, Nell Harrison
Director: Alan Schneider
Certificate: 
A man scrambles through a silent grey landscape to his sparsely decorated room, where he systematically rids himself of every possible witness to his existence: pets, mirror, a picture of a staring ancient god, photos of his own past. But also watching him is someone else, embodied by the gaze of ..read more »
 
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When Comedy Was King
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton
Director: Robert Youngson
Certificate: 
Take a fun filled trip back to a bygone era with the greatest silent comedians of all time. Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, Ben Turpin and Snub Pollard were just a few of the comedic geniuses who spread laughter and happiness to millions accross the world. Without having to speak a ..read more »
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from 28 members
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The Golden Age Of Comedy
(5 discs)
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Groucho Marx, Humphrey Bogart, Lucille Ball
Director: Robert Youngson
Certificate: 
Features a collection of comic clips from the 1950s. Includes footage taken from: 'The Jack Benny Show', 'The Bob Hope Chevy Show', The Ed Wynn Show', 'The Camel Comedy Caravan', 'The Colgate Comedy Hour', 'The Phil Silvers Special' and 'The Ernie Kovacs Show'.
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Charlie Chaplin - Limelight
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Buster Keaton
Director: Charlie Chaplin
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London, 1914. Calvero (Charles Chaplin), a once-great music hall comedian, weaves drunkenly home to his shabby flat. As he arrives home, he is suddenly sobered by a bad smell. It isn't his shoes, as he originally assumes, but the smell of gas, emanating from behind a locked door. Calvero smashes ..read more »
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from 758 members
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Sunset Boulevard
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich Von Stroheim
Director: Billy Wilder
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Billy Wilder's masterpiece, a corrosive black comedy that remains the most memorable assault on the emptiness and vanity of the movie business, it stars William Holden as young, down-and-out screenwriter Joe Gillis. Narrated in flashbacks by the now-deceased scribe, the film unwinds the series of ..read more »
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from 11,665 members
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Buster Keaton - Steamboat Bill Jr
on DVD
(1928)
Starring: Buster Keaton
Director: Charles Reisner
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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 sight gags. Keaton plays Willie Canfield, the namby-pamby son of rough-and-tumble steamboat captain Steamboat Bill Canfield (Ernest Torrence). When he's not trying to make a ..read more »
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from 715 members
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College
on DVD
(1927)
Starring: Buster Keaton, Ann Cornwall, Florence Turner
Director: James Horne
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Three features. Buster Keaton demonstrates both comic and dramatic skills as he parodies the evils of intolerance in prehistoric times, ancient Rome and in modern times. 'College is centred around life on a college campus and in 'Steamboat Bill Jr' the son of a riverboat captain falls in love with ..read more »
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from 190 members
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The General
on DVD
(1926)
Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavander
Director: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
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A young railroad engineer is prevented from enlisting in the Confederate Army because of his profession. A year later he is able to free his girlfriend who is a passenger on a train hijacked by Union soldiers. Historians consider this film to be the last truly classic comedy of the silent film era. ..read more »
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from 3,014 members
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Battling Butler
on DVD
(1926)
Starring: Buster Keaton
Director: Buster Keaton
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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 film casts Keaton as wimpy millionaire Alfred Butler, who goes on a vacation in the mountains in the company of his faithful valet (Snitz Edwards). While communing with ..read more »
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from 14 members
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Buster Keaton - Vol. 6
on DVD
(1926)
Starring: Buster Keaton
Director: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
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Three features. In 'College' a conscientious student of Clayton College finds himself battling it out on the athletics field as he strives to win the affection of his coed. Also features 'Pale Face' and 'Blacksmith'.
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Buster Keaton - Vol. 8
on DVD
(1926)
Starring: Buster Keaton
Director: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, Edward F. Cline
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Two features. In 'The General' a young railroad engineer is prevented from enlisting in the Confederate Army because of his profession. A year later he is able to free his girlfriend who is a passenger on a train hijacked by Union soldiers. Also features 'The Electric House'.
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from 289 members
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Buster Keaton - Go West
on DVD
(1925)
Starring: Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers
Director: Buster Keaton
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Includes three features:
GO WEST - A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwelmed by the life of the city, so decides to try his luck somewhere else after a only a few minutes in New York. He falls off a train near a ranch, where he tries ..read more »
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from 32 members
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The Three Ages
on DVD
(1923)
Starring: Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery
Director: Buster Keaton
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Inspired by D.W. Griffiths Intolerance, Buster Keaton stars in this hilarious comedy in which two young men compete for the same girl in different epochs: the Stone Age, Ancient Rome, and America during Prohibition.
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from 47 members
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Buster Keaton - Vol. 2
on DVD
(1920)
Starring: Buster Keaton
Director: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
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Four classic Buster Keaton shorts: 'Neighbors' is an updated Romeo and Juliet and set in an area where Buster and Virginia's families live. 'One Week' finds newlyweds Buster and Sybil being given a portable house as a present. 'The Boat' finds Buster building a boat in the basement of his house. ..read more »
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from 196 members
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Buster Keaton - Vol. 1
on DVD
(1920)
Starring: Buster Keaton
Director: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
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Four classic Buster Keaton short films: 'Convict 13' finds Buster playing golf when he is hit by a ball. Whilst out cold an escaped convict steals his clothes and on waking finds himself on his way to prison and due to be hanged the following day. 'The High Signs' sees Buster getting a job in a ..read more »
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from 131 members
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Buster Keaton - A Hard Act To Follow
Starring: Buster Keaton
Director: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
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In the space of ten years Buster Keaton made his way to becoming one of the Silent era's most remarkable comedians only to fall from grace when his now-acknowledged classic, The General, bombed at the box office and he found himself reduced to writing gags for the Marx Brothers and forcibly ..read more »
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from 124 members
Not available for rental
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Buster Keaton - Double Header
on DVD
Starring: Buster Keaton
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Includes the two features, "The Railrodder" and "The Silent Partner":
THE RAILRODDER
A screen short starring Buster Keaton, this is one of the last films of the comedian's long career. As "the railrodder" he crosses Canada from east to west on a railway track speeder. As might be expected, the ..read more »
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from 5 members
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The Buster Keaton Chronicles
(6 discs)
Starring: Buster Keaton
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A collection of 28 films featuring the 'Great Stone Face' himself, Buster Keaton.
Films Comprise:
1.One Week
2.The Saphead
3.Convict 13
4.The Scarecrow
5.Neighbors
6.The Haunted House
7.The Goat
8.The Boat
9.The Playhouse
10.The Paleface
11.Cops
12.My Wife's Relations
13.The Blacksmith
14.The ..read more »
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from 28 members
Not available for rental
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Our Hospitality/Sherlock Jr
on DVD
Starring: Buster Keaton
Director: Buster Keaton
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Features selected Buster Keaton movies, including: 'Our Hospitality', 'Sherlock Jnr.', 'Steamboat Bill Jnr.', 'Convict 13', 'Daydreams', 'The Saphead', 'The High Sign', 'One Week', 'Seven Chances', 'The Balloonatic', 'Neighbours', 'Battling Butler', 'The Haunted House' and 'The Frozen North'.
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Buster Keaton facts
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...Johnnie(Buster Keaton), a train driver, tries to enlist in the civil war but is turned down and his girlfriend is not impressed, 'Don't talk to me again until you're in unif...
