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Overview

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Director:

Buster Keaton

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)

User Comments:

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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Additional Details

Runtime:

45 min

Country:

USA

Language:

None

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Silent


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

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

Movie Connections:

Referenced in A Black and White World (2005) more


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11 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
A World of Possibilities, 5 March 2006
10/10
Author: up2u (samtheman81@earthlink.net) from New York, NY

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.

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