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1.A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum starring: Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford, Jack Gilford directed by: Richard Lester January 06, 1998
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I love Richard Lester's style of direction( Hard Day's Night, The Ritz, Three Muskateer's etc). Zero Mostel in a role that rivals his performance in the Producer's will have you rolling on the floor. Phil Silvers is at his best as a wheeler dealer. The Roman Empire lasted in spite of the shenanigans here. A story of mixed up love and misdirection. Will they pull it off or will they fall to the conquerer who raped Thrace thrice? Anyway it's a very funny movie at a greta price.

2.Cameraman (Silent) starring: Richard Alexander, Sidney Bracey, Edward Brophy, Ray Cooke, Marceline Day directed by: Buster Keaton September 01, 1998
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Buster Keaton near the end of his great period (he had foolishly given up artistic control of his pictures by this time), but this is still a top-notch movie. He plays a tin-type portrait artist who becomes smitten with a girl who works as a secretary at a newsreel company; in order to be by her he buys a movie camera and tries to become a newsreel cameraman. Some of the classic comic secenes (always with Keaton in deadpan mode) include him at a swimming pool, playing baseball with himself in an empty Yankee Stadium, and being in the middle of a Tong war in Chinatown. Perhaps the funniest scene of all is at the end when he unwittingly becomes part of the Lindbergh ticker-tape parade and he thinks the crowd is cheering him. Keaton's balletic humorous touches are on full display, and it's ... Read More

3.Buster Keaton - A Hard Act to Follow: Genius Recognized starring: Lindsay Anderson, Buster Keaton, Charles Lamont, Bill Cox, Loyal T. Lucas directed by: David Gill, Kevin Brownlow January 01, 1998
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If you love Keaton you will love this documentary. It is just a must have for any Keaton Fan.

4.What! No Beer? starring: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Roscoe Ates, Phyllis Barry, John Miljan directed by: Edward Sedgwick January 27, 1993
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"What! No Beer?" (1933) is a terribly uneven Prohibition-era comedy with some classic Buster Keaton moments undercut by the irritating verbage of Jimmy Durante. Despite his alcoholic condition (evident in several scenes), Buster makes the most of his non-Durante sequences - recreating his "Seven Chances" climax with beer barrels replacing boulders. Though a box-office hit, MGM fired Keaton for his uncontrollable drinking and the comic legend never starred in another Hollywood feature. Regardless of the sad ironies associated with Keaton's life and career, "What! No Beer?" is worth a look - just fast-forward past the Durante segments.

5.Buster Keaton - A Hard Act to Follow: Star Without a Studio starring: Lindsay Anderson, Buster Keaton, Charles Lamont, Bill Cox, Loyal T. Lucas directed by: David Gill, Kevin Brownlow January 01, 1998
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If you love Keaton you will love this documentary. It is just a must have for any Keaton Fan.

6.Buster Keaton - A Hard Act to Follow: From Vaudeville to Movies starring: Lindsay Anderson, Buster Keaton, Charles Lamont, Bill Cox, Loyal T. Lucas directed by: David Gill, Kevin Brownlow January 01, 1998
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If you love Keaton you will love this documentary. It is just a must have for any Keaton Fan.

7.Doughboys starring: Buster Keaton, Sally Eilers, Cliff Edwards, Edward Brophy, Victor Potel directed by: Edward Sedgwick January 27, 1993
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This isn't a four star film if you're not a fan of Buster Keaton. However, if you are a fan, it has a far more independent feel to it than its predecessor, Free and Easy, which was Buster's first talkie. Here Buster plays a wealthy young man who doesn't quite get how the rest of the world works until he manages to accidentally join the Army and is shipped overseas during World War I. Ed Brophy does a great job as an over-loud sergeant who is always on Buster's case, and Cliff Edwards pairs up well with Keaton in a musical number and a skit. This is probably second to Speak Easily as being the best of Keaton's MGM talkies, although there is still no comparison to his silent features. Maybe this film is OK because it seems that Buster was allowed to put more of his stamp on it than his other MGM films. For example, ... Read More

8.Charlie Chaplin: Limelight (1952) starring: Marjorie Bennett, Barry Bernard, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Josephine Chaplin November 05, 1992
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Hello, I am a person who really loves Chaplin, and own copies of almost every movie available from his Sennet days to "A King In New York". I usually play them from the earliest to the latest about once every year or two. My heart sinks as I approach "Limelight". I find it to be a trial to sit through. It seems to drone on and on, and be filled with bathos. If I hear Claire Bloom say "Calvero" over again, and whine on and on about life, I will probably scream. Actually the best part of the movie by far is when Chaplin slaps her. This is what we wanted to do for the first 6 or 7 hours the movie appears to last. The only other highlight is of course Chaplin's encounters with Buster Keaton, although why we hear no one laughing during their music routine, I don't know. It really ruins it. I would ... Read More

9.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) starring: Tony Randall, Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore, Patty McCormack, Neville Brand directed by: Michael Curtiz December 07, 1994
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Recently I had the pleasure of reading "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." I agreed with so many others that it was indeed apart of classic American literature. The movie however, is not. The movie does not even go in the same order as the novel. It jumps around and adds completely new scenes that were not apart of the novel. Plus the extra scenes were completely unnecessary. Some of the important scenes not only were out of place, but they were boring and unlike the novel. The character Jim in the novel is not very witty but he is still a good man. He continues to be a good man in the film, but he tricks Huck which is completely un-Jim like. But i must say the young fellow that plays Huck is very convincing. I had pictured Huck much younger in my mind but I feel that the actor did Huck justice in a movie where so much ... Read More

10.Buster Keaton - A Hard Act to Follow starring: Lindsay Anderson, Buster Keaton, Charles Lamont, Bill Cox, Loyal T. Lucas directed by: David Gill, Kevin Brownlow August 16, 1989
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If you love Keaton you will love this documentary. It is just a must have for any Keaton Fan.

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