Buster Keaton
Birthday: 1895-10-03
Place of Birth: Piqua, Kansas, USA
Biography: Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname The Great Stone Face. He was recognized as the seventh-greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Keaton the 21st-greatest male star of all time.
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The General
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The Genera...
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Sherlock Jr.
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed b...
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Sunset Boulevard
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...
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Our Hospitality
A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to ki...
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Estrellados
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the S...
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Around the World in 80 Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor...
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Li'l Abner
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry tw...
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $...
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Li'l Abner
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry tw...
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One Week
Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be buil...
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
A promotional film featuring movie stars at play. Includes Buster Keaton in a Napoleonic admiral sui...
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The Navigator
The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Bet...
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The Railrodder
After literally swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, an Englishman takes a country trip across Canada...
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Go West
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually ...
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In the Good Old Summertime
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an...
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend....
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Seven Chances
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday...
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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father who...
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The Paleface
A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but t...
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Three Ages
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villa...
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The Hollywood Clowns
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history....
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College
A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affectio...
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Limelight
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again fee...
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Free and Easy
Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywo...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone o...
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The Blacksmith
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the s...
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Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral ...
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The Voice of Hollywood
If you enjoy playing "Spot the Stars", this is the sort of short you'd enjoy. It's full of then-well...
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Back Stage
Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it'...
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Convict 13
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbr...
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The Balloonatic
Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their surviva...
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The Bell Boy
At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered b...
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Cops
Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually ...
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Coney Island
Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that s...
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Day Dreams
In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of wo...
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Good Night, Nurse!
Roscoe's wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has...
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Hard Luck
A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He the...
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His Wedding Night
Al and Roscoe, employees at a gas station, are rivals for Alice. When Buster delivers a wedding gown...
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My Wife's Relations
Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him ni...
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The High Sign
Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run b...
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom....
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The Boat
A boat builder and his family attempt to set sail in his handmade boat, 'The Damfino'....
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Jail Bait
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searche...
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Out West
The story involves Arbuckle coming to the western town of Mad Dog Gulch after being thrown off a tra...
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Spite Marriage
An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he ...
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The Hayseed
Buster manages the store while Roscoe delivers the mail, taking time out for hide-and-seek with Moll...
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The Rough House
Living under the same roof with his newly-wed wife and his mother-in-law, a careless Mr Rough sets t...
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Neighbors
The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families...
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The Haunted House
A bank teller becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters and a theatrical troupe posing as spoo...
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The Goat
A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam....
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The Play House
Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage h...
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The Frozen North
A mix of guns and mistaken identity leads to chaos in this satirical parody of William S. Hart's mel...
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The Electric House
Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home....
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The Love Nest
In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at the sea when he's caught by...
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Battling Butler
A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart....
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The Gold Ghost
Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where...
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Allez Oop
When Buster's girlfriend falls for a trapeze artist, Buster tries to beat him at his own game....
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Grand Slam Opera
Elmer Butts is a contestant in a radio amateur hour show hoping to win the first price -- by dancing...
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Blue Blazes
Buster becomes a fireman, but unfortunately not a particularly good one. He has a chance to prove hi...
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Mixed Magic
When Buster Keaton goes to work as an assistant to a carnival magician, the results turn out to be l...
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Love Nest on Wheels
Buster, the eldest son in a family of hillbillies who manage a hotel, attempts to raise money to sav...
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marr...
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The Saphead
Nick Van Alstyne owns the Henrietta silver mine and is very rich and his son Bertie is naive and spo...
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The Butcher Boy
Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, ...
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Oh, Doctor!
Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love wit...
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Moonshine
A feud between the Owens and the Gillettes ends when the last remaining Gillette is killed, but new ...
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The Cook
In an attempt at greater efficiency, the chef and waiter of a fancy oceanside restaurant wreak havoc...
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The Garage
Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a ca...
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Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her old...
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The Stolen Jools
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra...
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Sidewalks of New York
A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) b...
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The Passionate Plumber
Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagor...
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What! No Beer?
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters...
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The Invader
A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in...
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Palooka from Paducah
A hillbilly family, hard-hit by the end of Prohibition, decide to set the biggest brother up as a pr...
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One Run Elmer
Elmer owns a gas station out in the California desert. Soon he has a business rival in Jim, who open...
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Hayseed Romance
Elmer answers an ad for a handyman job and starts working for an older woman and her niece. He gets ...
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Tars and Stripes
Naval recruit Elmer is seemingly unable to discharge any of his duties without making life miserable...
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The E-Flat Man
Elmer attempts to elope with his fiancée, but they escape her parents by driving off in a car that's...
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The Timid Young Man
Milton, a disappointed romantic, has sworn off women. He gives a lift to a female hitchhiker, whom h...
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Three on a Limb
Scoutmaster Elmer Brown loses his heart to the pretty carhop who works in a drive-in diner. Complica...
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The Chemist
Buster plays Elmer "Happy" Triple, a scientist who is expected to develop the next big thing. That b...
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Ditto
Buster, an ice delivery man, falls for one of his customers, not knowing she has a twin sister livin...
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Pest from the West
A millionaire vacationing in Mexico falls for a local girl and sets out to win her....
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Mooching Through Georgia
Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War....
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Nothing But Pleasure
To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home....
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Pardon My Berth Marks
Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife....
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The Villain Still Pursued Her
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Sav...
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His Ex Marks the Spot
Buster's home life is disrupted when his ex-wife and her boyfriend move in....
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So You Won't Squawk
Mobster Louie the Wolf sends an unsuspecting handyman (Keaton) to gather up the collection money owe...
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General Nuisance
A millionaire falls for an army nurse, who tells him she likes men in uniform. So he enlists at Camp...
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San Diego I Love You
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father...
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That's the Spirit
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated ...
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That Night with You
In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a...
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God's Country
Lee Preston, aka Leland Bruce, kills a man in self defense but flees to the redwood country when the...
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Boom in the Moon
An American soldier (Keaton) during World War II escapes from an airplane crash over the Pacific Oce...
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The Lovable Cheat
Posing as a wealthy Parisian, Mercadet fleeces friends and casual acquaintances alike. He is forced ...
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You're My Everything
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him...
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L'Incantevole nemica
The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one o...
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The Misadventures of Buster Keaton
Feature film fashioned from parts of Keaton's short-lived TV series "The Buster Keaton Show."...
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The Triumph of Lester Snapwell
A low budget industrial film shot for the Eastman Kodak company. The mildly funny film that shows al...
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Pajama Party
A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl....
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Sergeant Deadhead
An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is d...
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The Scribe
Comedy short produced by the Construction Safety Association of Ontario, Canada. It demonstrates the...
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A Reckless Romeo
Roscoe flirts with a girl in the park. Later he takes his wife and mother-in-law to the movies only ...
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The Image Book
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, tele...
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The Iron Mule
A train known as the Iron Mule is loaded with passengers, and starts off on its trip. Along the way,...
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Doughboys
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly...
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When Comedy Was King
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, B...
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Buster Keaton Rides Again
In the fall of 1964, just over a year before his death, Buster Keaton traveled to Canada to make The...
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Life with Buster Keaton
Buster's shenanigans running a sporting goods store and his antics in a local theatre group....
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A Duel to the Death
On the the bank of a peaceful river, two fishermen are... fishing! An idyllic scene indeed. At least...
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4 Clowns
Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel a...
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Crazy Days
Narrator Hughie Green tells "jokes" over clips of old silent films. Including greats such as Fatty A...
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Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual c...
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The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although...
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The King of the Champs-Élysées
In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict....
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The Home Owner
A 25 minute sales film featuring Buster Keaton as a prospective home owner in Maryvale, a suburb of ...
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The Devil to Pay
A short silent (with narration), parodying science fiction films. The USA misfires a rocket which c...
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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States -...
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Buster Keaton: The Genius Destroyed by Hollywood
In 1926, Buster Keaton was at the peak of his glory and wealth. By 1933, he had reached rock bottom....
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nomi...
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Hollywood Hobbies
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood star...
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Paradise for Buster
Buster leaves his job after learning that he inherited a farm from an old relative....
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...
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Beach Blanket Bingo
In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led...
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The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches....
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Dance Crazy in Hollywood
American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious hi...
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The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
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Tide of Empire
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for ban...
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No Time at All
An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from r...
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That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi...
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So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM
A Turner Classic Movies (TCM) documentary about Keaton's discontented relationship with MGM and the ...
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Stunts: A Taste for Risk
The amazing story of stunts, men and women who risk their lives every day on set to get the perfect ...
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Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts
A documentary short included as an extra with "The Buster Keaton Collection"....
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We're switching to Hollywood
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who ...
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Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
A documentary which explores the lives and tragic deaths of Marceline Orbes and Francis "Slivers" Oa...
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That's Entertainment! III
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929...
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Character Studies
Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applyin...
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Lifetime of Comedy
Compilation of comedy sketches from the comedy kings Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kaye & Bi...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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The Round-Up
A lovesick sheriff protects his town, embroiled in a feud between a crafty bandit leader and the fam...
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She Went to the Races
A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy....
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Take It or Leave It
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant...
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Buster Keaton The Shorts Collection 1917-1923
Includes all 32 of Keaton's extant silent shorts (thirteen of which were produced under the tutelage...
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The Awakening
"The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on N...
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Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
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Barney's Wall
What makes a rebel? This 78 minute documentary probes the psyche of bad-boy publisher and free speec...
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Notfilm
NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster...
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Salute to Stan Laurel
A program featuring original comedy skits written as a tribute to Stan Laurel....
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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War Italian Style
It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African des...
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Langlois-Keaton à Paris
Furtive traces of a visit, a certain February 22, 1962: Buster Keaton....
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Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends
Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were two incredibly talented artists who enjoyed enormous worldwid...
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Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies
Time Travelers, a new documentary by Daniel Raim featuring interviews with John Bengtson and film hi...
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Casanova wider Willen
Jeffrey wants to marry Virginia, who refuses to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please An...
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30 Years of Fun
Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-w...
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Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One
A collection of five silent comedy shorts co-starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, and...
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Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two
A collection of five silent comedy shorts co-starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, and...
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The Adventures of Mr. Pastry
Interested in becoming a serious actor, Mr. Pastry (Richard Hearne) seeks out the services of a down...
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There's No Business Like No Business
On behalf of the Arvin Corporation, Buster Keaton demonstrates the importance of using Maremont auto...
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Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen
A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and bio...
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Hodgepodge
Andrew Richter shares odd celebrity encounters from his years of working in hotels....
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The Three Stooges Follies
Released to theaters in 1974, this collection of vintage Columbia short subjects included: "Yes, We ...
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You Have to Live Somewhere
A found footage video utilizing Buster Keaton's "One Week" with a song by Don Lennon....
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The Great Chase
A rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences...
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Hooray for Hollywood
A celebration of Hollywood in the 1930s, featuring a compilation of clips from features and newsreel...
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Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
Second installment of deleted scenes, mostly musical or comedic, from Fox films of the 30's - 50's....
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The Metaphysics of Buster Keaton
America's great film director-actor Buster Keaton, discussed by film critic Andrew Sarris and Raymon...
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Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
For more than 30 years, Lucille Ball was one of the most recognized and loved entertainers in the wo...
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The Real Charlie Chaplin
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he g...
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R.E.M x Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr
Buster Keaton’s 1924 comedy classic is reimagined with R.E.M. 's alt-rock masterpieces Monster (1994...
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