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Buster Keaton - 65th Anniversary Collection (General Nuisance / His Ex Marks the Spot / Mooching Through Georgia / Nothing but Pleasure / Pardon My Berth Marks / Pest From the West / So You Won't Squawk / The Spook Speaks / The Taming of the Snood / She's Oil Mine) Posters
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Buster Keaton - 65th Anniversary Collection (General Nuisance / His Ex Marks the Spot / Mooching Through Georgia / Nothing but Pleasure / Pardon My Berth Marks / Pest From the West / So You Won't Squawk / The Spook Speaks / The Taming of the Snood / She's Oil Mine) DVD
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396121379
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: March 07, 2006
Running Time: 176 minutes
Sales Rank: 15565
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: September 20, 1940
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Product Description:
Ten comedic shorts from the Great Stone Face himself Buster Keaton arrive on DVD for the first time ever in this must-own special two-disc set! The honorary Academy Award®-winner shines in rare films from Hollywood's golden - and hilarious - years. Teamed with the brilliant comediennes Dorothy Appleby and Elsie Ames Keaton bumbles from one side-splitting mishap to another always maintaining his famously blank expression. Whether he's a millionaire a plumber or a hat maker Keaton's physical antics and hapless adventures light up the screen in these unforgettable 1940s comedies. The Buster Keaton Collection will have you doubled over with laughter!System Requirements:Run Time: 176 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 043396121379 Manufacturer No: 12137
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An entire missing segment of Buster Keaton's career is filled in with the release of this collection, which comprises the 10 shorts Keaton made at Columbia Pictures in 1939-41. If you're a Keaton fan (and why on earth wouldn't you be?) this section of the great man's work has always been in dispute--and above all, hard to see. After his career collapsed at the beginning of the 1930s, Buster Keaton struggled to find a niche in Hollywood, and the Columbia contract was essentially his last sustained opportunity to headline in films on a regular basis. It was a difficult fit from the start: Keaton did not have the artistic control he enjoyed over his 1920s classics, and director Jules White (who helmed most of the Columbia shorts) had a radically different view of comedy from his star. White guided the hijinks of Columbia's busiest comedy stars, the Three Stooges, and his leadpipe-to-the-noggin style did not mesh well with Keaton's measured, logical approach.
If one dials down expectations, some of the Columbia shorts (around 16-17 minutes long) are enjoyable in the baggy-pants style of the Three Stooges. And when it comes to searching for signs of the old Keaton, there are usually one or two blossoms poking out of the overall bluntness. Mooching through Georgia, a Civil War spoof, has moments of silent hilarity and a Keatonesque note of fatalism as Buster is marched to his own execution. Nothing but Pleasure has a terrific sequence involving a drunk woman who wanders into Buster's motel room, and Buster's efforts to get her into a Murphy bed. She's Oil Mine features a breathtaking gag in which Keaton is spun around like a tire iron in order to get a pipe unstuck from his finger. Keaton, in his mid-40s, is still in athletic form, although thanks to alcohol and disappointment he looks older than his years.
Commentaries adorn the shorts, and there's a useful 25-minute documentary giving the general outline of Keaton's life and details on the Columbia arrangement. It's refreshingly honest about the mixed quality of these films, and contains excerpts from his silent shorts that suggest how far the genius had slipped. In that sense, while this DVD package honorably presents a moment from film history (and with fine technical specs all around), the actual watching of these shorts is tinged with sadness. The casual moviegoer curious about Keaton should go elsewhere; the completist will want it; the amateur historian will want to give a look to see what the "missing years" were all about. --Robert Horton
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By 1939 when Keaton made these films, his career as a major film comedian was over due to a combination of personal and professional problems. He managed to cleanup his personal life and wanted to rebuild his career. He thought working at Columbia would be a good start since their shorts were given much wider distribution than the short films he made a few years earlier at Educational that went unnoticed. Wider exposure would reestablish him with the public and let the major studios know he was ... Read More
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Filmed at Columbia c.39-41 these films will appeal more to fans of the 3 Stooges than fans of Buster Keaton. In the silent days nobody was funnier than Keaton (including Chaplin) but, by his own admission, Keaton was not a good sound comic. (His voice recalls a gruffer Bud Abbot.)
The Columbia shorts were considered bottom-of-the-barrel and were a haven for silent "has-beens" (inc;uding Harry Langdon). The only Columbia shorts still in regular circulation today are the 3 Stooges. And a lot of ... Read More
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...but it won't prevent you from becoming one either.
Buster did these short films for Columbia between 1939 and 1941, and the pace of production was frantic, so there was really no time for the Keaton finesse you see in Buster's short silent films of the 20's. These films have always had a pretty bad reputation, but they are amusing enough, especially for a Keaton completist. The problem is that Jules White's brand of comedy that worked so well for the Three Stooges was just not suited ... Read More
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I always enjoy lectures about the arts, and I was delighted to find that each of these movies comes with a voice-over commentary. Joe Adamson and Patricia Tobias seem completely unprepared to start -- they begin their talks haltingly, almost as if it takes a few minutes to set their brains into multi-task mode to watch a movie and talk at the same time. But once they get in gear they do pretty well, and they share interesting information without being greasy about it. Each commentator goes astray once ... Read More
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This was a Krissmiss gift for me, and as a Buster Keaton fan, I must say that it is perhaps the nicest gift I have ever received. This was the only phase of Keaton's career that I had never seen before. These ten films are three hours of joy watching Keaton. The joy also comes with great sadness. We see Keaton still able to execute brilliant comedic moments, but for most of these Columbia films, he is forced to act the part of the Fourth Stooge. How could the studios be so blind and not see the brilliance ... Read More
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