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61) Battling Butler
Pub. Date
1926.
Description
Based on a Broadway play, the story revolves around a case of mistaken identity between two Alfred Butlers - on an effete millionaire (Keaton), the other the heavyweight champion of the world (Francis McDonald).
62) Patterns
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
When Fred Staples is recruited onto the board of a high-powered New York corporation, he finds his ethics and ambition at odds.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In 1911, photographer Edward S. Curtis traveled to British Columbia and visited the Kwakwaka'wakw, an Indigenous tribe belonging to the Pacific Northwest Coast. Hard up for cash and loaded with a year's worth of footage, Curtis decided the best way to capture the life and ceremonies of the Kwakwaka'wakw was to make a feature-length motion picture – one of the first of its kind. Over the course of three years, Curtis and his assistant, a Kwakwaka'wakw...
64) The Love Nest
Pub. Date
1923.
Description
In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at sea where he boards a whaling ship with a strict captain.
65) Misty
Pub. Date
1961.
Description
Based on Marguerite Henry's award-winning novel, this heartwarming drama centers on Paul and his sister, Maureen, who set out to catch a beautiful, elusive mare called Phantom during Chincoteague Island's annual Pony Penning event.
66) The Boat
Pub. Date
1921.
Description
Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.
67) The Blacksmith
Pub. Date
1922.
Description
Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.
68) Convict 13
Pub. Date
1920.
Description
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
69) The Three Ages
Pub. Date
1923.
Description
A brilliant historical satire teeming with inventive flourishes, Buster Keaton's THREE AGES is a silent comedy of truly epic proportions. This clever parody of D. W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE follows Buster's hard-luck romantic adventures throughout world history: form the dawn of man in the Stone Age, through the gladiatorial arenas of Ancient Rome, to the city streets of the American Jazz Era. *"Superb three-part silent comedy." - Daniel Eagan, **Film...
71) The Frozen North
Pub. Date
1922.
Description
Buster plays a bumbling villain in this parody of melodrama.
72) The Silent Enemy
Pub. Date
1930.
Description
A documentary showing us the life of an Indian tribe, who has to decide where to head next in order to find food which became rare. The situation is hardened by the fact two of the men both want to marry the Chief's daughter…
73) The Odd Couple
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays...
74) College
Pub. Date
1927.
Description
Buster Keaton goes back to school and stages a hilarious send-up of university life in COLLEGE. Keaton stars as Ronald, an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in pursuit of higher learning, but finds himself instead embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary. *"Buster on the playing field, failing gloriously at every sport but executing each one beautifully when he dashes to his girl's rescue,...
76) Cops
Pub. Date
1922.
Description
A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force.
Pub. Date
1923.
Description
As new generations discover the magic of silent cinema, Buster Keaton has emerged as one of the era's most admired and respected artists. Behind the deadpan expression and trademark porkpie hat was a filmmaking genius who conceived and engineered some of the most breathtaking stunts and feats of visual trickery, while never losing sight of slapstick cinema's primary objective: laughter. *"The greatest of the silent clowns is Buster Keaton, not only...
79) Barbary Coast
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. **Academy Award** nominee.
80) Dead End
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum. Nominated for 4 **Academy Awards**.
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