| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 78 min.) |
| Summary |
More than just a silent comedian known for his pratfalls and clever mimicry, Buster Keaton was an unparalleled genius of the American cinema. This film presents three of his early works, displaying his extraordinary talents as actor and filmmaker alike. Keaton stars in The saphead as Bertie Van Alstyne, the spoiled son of a powerful Wall Street financier. Unable to escape the wealth and comfort that are foisted upon him, he pursues individuality in a series of comic misadventures in the speakeasies of New York, at the altar of matrimony, and even on the floor of the American stock exchange. The saphead was instrumental in establishing Keaton as a bona fide star and greatly influenced his formulation of the Buster persona: a lonely, stone-faced soul thwarted by circumstance yet undauntedly resourceful and indefatigable in his struggle for love and survial within a chaotic world |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
| Credits |
Director, Herbert Blache ; photography, [Harold Wenstrom] ; script, June Mathis |
| Cast |
Buster Keaton, Beula Booker, Edward Connelly, Edward Jobson, Edward Alexander, Odette Tyler, Carol Holloway, Irving Cummings, Jack Livingston, William H. Crane |
| Event |
Originally produced by Film Preservation Society in 1920 |
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Motion pictures.
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Motion pictures authorship
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Rich people.
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Comedy films.
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Bars (Drinking establishments) -- New York
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Marriage.
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Actors -- United States.
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Actors.
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Bars (Drinking establishments)
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Comedy films.
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Marriage.
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Motion pictures.
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Rich people.
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United States.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966, actor.
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