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Buster Keaton - Vol. 1 Reviews

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Features two films: 'Our Hospitality' and 'Sherlock Jnr'. Read more

Starring	Buster Keaton
Genres	Comedy

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  superb comedies
  
  Catching up on these old comedies you spot different things that what you saw when watching them years ago. Apart from the straightforward humour I now see how ... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Saty
  - Reading
  - 04 Jan 2005 at 11:43
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- - 0
  - 0
  Poetry in Motion
  
  This is very a watchable coupling of films and they prove there is something more to the genre of silent movie than a sequence of slapstick gags. Keaton's ... read more »
  
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- 1000449
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Seedyvee
  - 121 reviews
  - Grantham
  - 04 Jun 2011 at 21:11
- - 1
  - 0
  If it ain't broke don't fix it.
  
  Watching Buster Keaton's sublime vaudevillian-slapstick is my Woody-Allen-Hannah-&-Her-Sisters revelation moment; there's something life-affirming ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Brighton
  - 08 Nov 2008 at 10:54
- - 1
  - 0
  Classic brilliance
  
  Considering that more than 80 years have passed since the making of these films, their quality is astounding. The thought and ideas that went into them must ... read more »
  
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- - Cato
  - 553 reviews
  - Lydbury North
  - 25 Sep 2006 at 12:04
- - 2
  - 0
  Timeless comedy?
  
  Unlike other reviewers, I am ashamed to say that I did not laugh out loud once. Perhaps silent films really need the big screen to flourish. I'm extremely ... read more »
  
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- - Julian Wood
  - London, England
  - 07 Mar 2005 at 14:26
- - 2
  - 3
  A little old and crackly - the films, not me!
  
  Some of these prints aren't great, which makes watching a bit wearisome. The material is very dated now and many of the gags just really dated.
  
  ... read more »
  
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- - Timbo10
  - UK
  - 18 Feb 2005 at 16:24
- - 2
  - 0
  Rent it Now
  
  Keaton's inventive, thrilling, endearing, poignant, intelligent, ironical, and downright hilarious. (Watch out for the 'I lost a dollar' scene in ... read more »
  
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- - Siany
  - London
  - 16 Feb 2005 at 20:59
- - 0
  - 0
  mixed bag
  
  Sherlock jnr is wonderful (4 stars), our hospitality is not so great (2 stars). worth renting for shelock jnr alone though.
  
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- - a customer
  - London
  - 10 Feb 2005 at 09:32
- - 3
  - 0
  superb comedies
  
  Catching up on these old comedies you spot different things that what you saw when watching them years ago. Apart from the straightforward humour I now see how ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 61867
- - Saty
  - Reading
  - 04 Jan 2005 at 11:43
- - 0
  - 0
  I laughed out loud
  
  The High Sign is everything a silent movie shuld be - lots of visual gags, and crazy stunts.
  
  I laughed. My wife laughed. We will rent it again.
  
  Report this review
- 314970
- - RobboRobbo
  - KENT
  - 24 Nov 2004 at 18:03
- - 1
  - 1
  hilarious disc....
  
  considering when these films were made, the level off technical comedy, and level of ingenuity with the stunts is amazing.
  
  I was expecting to be ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 18510
- - Darren Carnall
  - Liverpool, England
  - 16 Sep 2004 at 18:59
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- - 3
  - 0
  superb comedies
  
  Catching up on these old comedies you spot different things that what you saw when watching them years ago. Apart from the straightforward humour I now see how ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 61867
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Saty
  - Reading
  - 04 Jan 2005 at 11:43
- - 2
  - 0
  Rent it Now
  
  Keaton's inventive, thrilling, endearing, poignant, intelligent, ironical, and downright hilarious. (Watch out for the 'I lost a dollar' scene in ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 73172
- - Siany
  - London
  - 16 Feb 2005 at 20:59
- - 2
  - 0
  Timeless comedy?
  
  Unlike other reviewers, I am ashamed to say that I did not laugh out loud once. Perhaps silent films really need the big screen to flourish. I'm extremely ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 78830
- - Julian Wood
  - London, England
  - 07 Mar 2005 at 14:26
- - 1
  - 0
  Classic brilliance
  
  Considering that more than 80 years have passed since the making of these films, their quality is astounding. The thought and ideas that went into them must ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 288897
- - Cato
  - 553 reviews
  - Lydbury North
  - 25 Sep 2006 at 12:04
- - 1
  - 0
  If it ain't broke don't fix it.
  
  Watching Buster Keaton's sublime vaudevillian-slapstick is my Woody-Allen-Hannah-&-Her-Sisters revelation moment; there's something life-affirming ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 655878
- - a customer
  - Brighton
  - 08 Nov 2008 at 10:54
- - 1
  - 1
  hilarious disc....
  
  considering when these films were made, the level off technical comedy, and level of ingenuity with the stunts is amazing.
  
  I was expecting to be ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 18510
- - Darren Carnall
  - Liverpool, England
  - 16 Sep 2004 at 18:59
- - 0
  - 0
  mixed bag
  
  Sherlock jnr is wonderful (4 stars), our hospitality is not so great (2 stars). worth renting for shelock jnr alone though.
  
  Report this review
- 71280
- - a customer
  - London
  - 10 Feb 2005 at 09:32
- - 0
  - 0
  I laughed out loud
  
  The High Sign is everything a silent movie shuld be - lots of visual gags, and crazy stunts.
  
  I laughed. My wife laughed. We will rent it again.
  
  Report this review
- 314970
- - RobboRobbo
  - KENT
  - 24 Nov 2004 at 18:03
- - 0
  - 0
  Poetry in Motion
  
  This is very a watchable coupling of films and they prove there is something more to the genre of silent movie than a sequence of slapstick gags. Keaton's ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 1000449
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Seedyvee
  - 121 reviews
  - Grantham
  - 04 Jun 2011 at 21:11
- - 2
  - 3
  A little old and crackly - the films, not me!
  
  Some of these prints aren't great, which makes watching a bit wearisome. The material is very dated now and many of the gags just really dated.
  
  ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 323638
- - Timbo10
  - UK
  - 18 Feb 2005 at 16:24

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