Edward Cline
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Flowerbelle Lee, reputation is tarnished when she is seen embracing a masked bandit in her bedroom. Forced to leave town until she can prove she is respectable, and married, Flowerbelle boards a train where she meets incorrigible Guthbert J. Twillie. Believing he's quite a catch, Flowerbelle accepts Twillie's marriage proposal. Mishaps magnify as West continues her flirtatious ways, when the masked bandit visits again and he's not at all who Flowerbelle...
Series
Criterion collection ; 78
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Egbert Souse accidently foils a bank robbery and is hired as a bank guard.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
None
Description
A five-disc collection of Keaton's 32 extant silent short films, presented in 2K restorations, newly scanned using archival film elements from around the world. This set includes the short comedies that Keaton made with pioneering silent comedy genius Roscoe Arbuckle, as well as all 19 of his independently-produced silent shorts that have cemented his reputation as one of silent cinema's most unique and respected artists. BUSTER KEATON: THE SHORTS...
Series
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
[Battling Butler] Alfred Butler, a fragile young man whose father sends him into the country where he hopes masculinity will blossom, is there mistaken for "Battling" Butler, a renowned prizefighter. Alfred carries on the ruse to impress a young lady, but his charade is soon complicated by the arrival of a true contender. [The haunted house] Buster takes refuge in a mansion rigged with a series of frightening booby traps. [The frozen North] Keaton...
5) Go West
Series
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
[Go West] A hapless young man, heeding the expansionist call of Horace Greeley, idealistically hops a freight train to meet his destiny. [The scarecrow] Follows the unhealthy competition between roommates vying for the attentions of a young lady. [The paleface] Buster helps a Native American tribe defend their land from greedy developers.
6) The general
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
[The general] A locomotive is beloved by its engineer, who sets out to win the Civil War single handedly. [The playhouse] A comedy in which Keaton plays a stage manager, an actor, a monkey and other parts. [Cops] A comedy of errors in which Buster Keaton attempts to win his sweetheart's hand in marriage by becoming a successful businessman. His exploits climax in a chase with an entire police precinct.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Widely regarded as one of the most visually inventive silent comedies ever made, Sherlock Jr. offers fast-paced slapstick as well as a brilliant deconstruction of the filmmaking process. Keaton stars as a movie theater projectionist who dreams of becoming a super-sleuth and , in one breathtaking sequence, literally steps into the screen to bring his fantasies to life.
Another comedy for film-lovers (that plays upon the conventions of cinema), Three...
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
[Seven chances] A romantically jinxed young man must marry by 7 PM to inherit seven million dollars. While fate seems to thwart his efforts to woo the object of his true affection, public announcement of his strange predicament provides him with a throng of would-be brides. [Neighbors] Buster tries to woo his tenement sweetheart in spite of the barriers that stand between them. [The balloonatic] Buster is carried by hot air from a cityside amusement...
9) College
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
[College] Ronald is 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. [The electric house] Buster turns an ordinary dwelling into an automated funhouse. [Hard luck] A suicidal Buster makes a final effort at fitting in with society at a swank country club. [The blacksmith] Mechanical mayhem is wrought in a...
10) Three ages
Series
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
[Three ages] Romantic misadventures from the dawn of man in the Stone Age, through the gladiatorial arenas of Ancient Rome to the city streets of the American Jazz Era. A clever parody of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance. [The goat] Keaton is mistaken for a nefarious gunslinger named Dead Shot Dan. [My wife's relations] A comedy of domestic turmoil that seems to reflect some of the tensions between Keaton and the Talmadges, his real life in-laws at the...
Publisher
Films Around the World, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
None
Description
"Legendary comedian, writer, actor and director Buster Keaton delivers three of his funniest and most memorable shorts like "The High Sign", "One Week", and "My Wife's Relations". Come along for the ride with outrageous physical comedy and slick humor by none other than the master himself!" --
12) The saphead
Series
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
[The Saphead] Bertie, the spoiled son of a powerful Wall Street financier, pursues his individuality in a series of comic misadventures. [The high sign] Buster becomes unwittingly involved in a radical secret society known as the Blinking Buzzards. [One week] Keaton and his bride inherit a do-it-by numbers pre-fab house, only somebody has mixed up the numbers.
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Mae West had an inexhaustibly playful interest in language, and a rare, sometimes perplexing, and even lofty wit, spiced by low-down slang. Well before the second wave of feminism, she wrote all her own material, insisted on total control of her work, and was wildly popular for a short time, right before the Production Code lowered the boom on adult attitudes being expressed in films. She made only 12 movies, but three are first-rate, and these were...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Bank dick: "W.C. Fields is Egbert Souse, a lowly bank guard who divides his time between the Black Pussy Cat Cafe and his dreaded family. His humdrum life changes when fate leads him to heroism, Hollywood and the good life. Packed with classic routines, including a wacky cops and robbers chase"--Container.
My little chickadee: "The reputation of voluptuous Flowerbelle Lee (West) is tarnished when she is seen embracing a masked bandit in her bedroom....