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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Clyde Bruckman (writer)
Jean C. Havez (writer)
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Release Date:
21 April 1924 (USA) more
Plot:
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
On DVD: The Minoru Kawasaki Collection, "The General"
(From IFC. 18 November 2008, 7:26 AM, PST)
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A World of Possibilities more (66 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Buster Keaton | ... | Sherlock, Jr. / Projectionist |
 | Kathryn McGuire | ... | The girl |
| Joe Keaton | ... | Her father |
| Erwin Connelly | ... | The butler / handyman |
| Ward Crane | ... | The sheik / villain |
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Runtime:
45 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:U | Portugal:M/6 | Finland:S | Spain:T | USA:Unrated
Filming Locations:
Larchmont Blvd. near Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, California, USA
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A a 14" x 36" poster for Rex Ingram's _Scaramouche (1922)_ is prominently displayed outside the theatre. more
Goofs:
Miscellaneous: As Buster falls asleep, the film begins unspooling onto the floor. When Buster wakes up, if nobody fixed it, there should be a large pile of film on the floor. And if someone fixed it, why didn't they wake him up? more
Quotes:
The sheik: We are lost! He is sending for the world's greatest detective - Sherlock Jr.! more
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Referenced in A Black and White World (2005) more
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Not only is this Buster Keaton's best film, but it is among the greatest achievements in the history of cinema, period. While it is not a feature-length film--and thus barred from most critics' lists of great films--it invented just about every single basic special effect known to movies (except for morphing). The story itself, about a film projectionist who desires to become part of the movies, and then does, by walking right onto the screen, made palpable the desire that we all have to be in the movies: To get the girl, to be an action hero, to outsmart the bad guys. Keaton invented meta-cinema before anyone even had a phrase for it.
This movie has entered our dreams.