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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381185423
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 22, 2002
Running Time: 248 minutes
Sales Rank: 20558
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 26, 1919
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A rising star who rose from bit player to writer, director, and star of comedies for Mack Sennett's Keystone Film Company, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle recruited up-and-coming vaudeville comic Buster Keaton for a series of films from 1917 through 1919. Presented chronologically, these shorts demonstrate Keaton's evolution from bit player to full partner as both men honed their comedic skills. Following the 1921 scandal that was inflamed by a publicity-seeking prosecutor and the tabloid press, Arbuckle's films were withdrawn from circulation in America. The films in this collection were gathered from international archives and private collections, with new English intertitles and digitally mastered from 35mm, some directly from the nitrate originals. Shorts: The Butcher Boy, The Rough House, His Wedding Night, Oh Doctor!, Coney Island, Out West, The Bell Boy, Moonshine (fragment), Good Night, Nurse, Back Stage, The Hayseed, The Garage.
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The Best Arbuckle/Keaton Collection literally defines the phenomenon of genius in the making. While showcasing the formidable slapstick talents of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle as director and star, this 12-title compilation is also a remarkable study of Buster Keaton's rapid evolution as a silent comedy master. Made in swift succession from 1917 to 1919, these chronologically sequenced two-reelers serve a dual purpose, re-establishing Arbuckle as an underrated talent (his career was tragically curtailed by an infamous rape scandal, despite his eventual exoneration), while crediting his mentorship of Keaton from Vaudeville veteran to inspired movie pioneer. The "Great Stone Face" had yet to emerge (though it's evident in Keaton's 1917 debut, "The Butcher Boy"), so Buster's innately amusing countenance is wondrously animated here, especially in "Coney Island," which doubles as an illustrious postcard from a bygone era. The final collaboration, "The Garage," was Buster's favorite, and it's easy to see why: with a giant turntable, fire hoses, grease buckets, and all varieties of gag-laden shtick, it's a sublime (and like most of these films, well-preserved) example of two gifted comedians at the peak of their craft. --Jeff Shannon
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This is a great set that shows how Buster Keaton learned the art of making comedy films under the tutorage of Roscoe Arbuckle from 1917-1919 and gradually advanced from apprentice to partner. There are twelve of their two-reelers included. The only one known to be in existence that is not in this set is 1918's "The Cook", which was the last short that Keaton and Arbuckle did before Keaton left for the army during World War I. It was said by Keaton himself that the only disagreement the pair ever ... Read More
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What a great comedy team they made, one the establised but soon to fade star, the other a rising apprentice star. Yes, there is much pure slapstick included, but there's lots of clever gags too. Perhaps my favorites are "The Bell Boy" and "The Garage". Why? Partly, because they came the closest to being an early version of the Laurel and Hardy team.
It's just too bad they were not able to continue in this direction. I've seen Keaton films without Arbuckle, but not Arbuckle films without ... Read More
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This 2-disc set compilation contains 12 ( including Buster's debut in " The butcher boy " ) of the 15 two-reels comedies that both comics interpreted together ( only one, " A country hero " ( 1917 ), is lost ), all of them directed between 1917 and 1919 by Roscoe " Fatty " Arbuckle himself ( there are only doubts with " Coney Island " that some specialists authorize entirely to Walter Lang ). Fatty's conception of comedy was pretty superfluous and mechanical ( just inversely that his friend Buster ... Read More
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I rented this from the local library and liked it so much and found it so great and funny that I knew I would have to buy myself my own copy later. A lot of people who aren't familiar with the genre at all constantly assert that silent comedy was little more than pie fights and police chases, but the shorts on these two discs reveal that that's not true at all and is little more than an urban legend spread by people who have no serious experience with this forgotten world of comedy in the late Teens. ... Read More
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It has been claimed more than once that Fatty Arbuckle taught Buster Keaton the mechanics of making movies, and Buster taught Fatty the artistry of making film comedies. Although things are invariably more complicated, this survey of the Arbuckle/Keaton partnership essentially supports this idea. What's great about the collection from an historical perspective is that it covers their entire period together, from the Butcher Boy (April 1917) to The Garage (late 1919). What a difference in artistry between ... Read More
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