Buster Keaton - Silent Classics, 2:

Flitterwochen im Fertighaus (1920): Decades before Jackie Chan, Buster Keaton was famous for his often perilous physical comedy and dangerous stunts. This short film is the one that contains the infamous wall-falling scene, where Buster is saved from certain doom by a well-placed window. There are n...

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Weitere Verfasser: Keaton, Buster (RegisseurIn), Cline, Edward F. (RegisseurIn), Lessley, Elgin (Kameramann/frau), Roberts, Joe (SchauspielerIn), Seely, Sybil (SchauspielerIn)
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Veröffentlicht: [s.l.] starmedia 2006
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Zusammenfassung:Flitterwochen im Fertighaus (1920): Decades before Jackie Chan, Buster Keaton was famous for his often perilous physical comedy and dangerous stunts. This short film is the one that contains the infamous wall-falling scene, where Buster is saved from certain doom by a well-placed window. There are no stunt doubles, camera tricks, or fancy prop gadgets - the gag happened just as it appears, and had Keaton been standing a few inches the wrong way, the results might have been fatal. [www.rinkworks.com]
Busters bunte Bühne (1921): This Buster Keaton short is quite a feat of the writer-director-star's technical prowess. An early sequence has Keaton playing the conductor of a show and each of the members of its orchestra, cast, and audience. At one point Keaton appears on screen nine different times. His various characters, instantly recognizable members of various stereotypes, are innovative, as is the elaborate, detailed scheme of gags. Don't let your eyes leave the screen for a second! Unfortunately, the short runs several minutes too long, meandering toward the end. [www.rinkworks.com]
Das Bleichgesicht (1922): The 20-minute The Paleface (1921) has a more serious subtext: it's about an Indian reservation being usurped by what the intertitles call "oil sharks" (led by a possibly unintentional bit of rhyming slang by the name of J.C.Hunt) who obtained the lease on the land by underhand methods. Unsurprisingly, the Indians don't take kindly to being given 24 hours' notice to quit, so they vow to kill the first white man who trespasses on their land. And guess who, playing an innocent butterfly collector, is the first through the fence? [dvdtimes.co.uk]
Beschreibung:[DVD] (60 Min.) s/w dolby digital 2.0 ; Stummfilm