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28 August 1922 (USA)
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This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last...
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Alaska
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Not your typical Buster
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(Complete credited cast) | Buster Keaton | ... | The Bad Man |
 | Joe Roberts | ... | The Driver |
| Sybil Seely | ... | Wife |
| Bonnie Hill | ... | The Pretty Neighbor |
| Freeman Wood | ... | Her Husband |
| Edward F. Cline | ... | The Janitor |
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17 min | Spain:15 min
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Keaton actually satirizes two of his famous contemporaries in this short: William S. Hart, of course, but also 'Erich Von Stroheim'. Near the end of the film, his female "victim" briefly visualizes Keaton dressed in the kind of elaborate, middle-European dress uniform (complete with monocle) favored by Von Stroheim during his "man-you-love-to-hate" phase.
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Continuity: Knife is pulled twice on The Bad Man in the fight at the end of the film.
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Spoofs Foolish Wives (1922)
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For only 17 minutes, The Frozen North is one of Buster Keaton's more interesting comedies. For starters, Keaton is not the hero but the foe of the film. He holds up the local casino, beats up his wife, and then tries to seduce the neighboring wife, all in the first half of the movie. After an off beat chase scene, Buster returns to town to be shot by his wife. Then again, in the last 15 seconds of the movie, we realize that it is all a dream as Keaton is woken up by the janitor at the cinema that the "movie" he was watching is over! It seems that Frozen North was just a few pages of ideas and not a real story. I think the movie stayed that way and never became a script. The story took a back seat to quick comedy routines and the bizarre character that Keaton portrayed. It is said that this was to be a 20 minute short. Some footage of the film was lost over the years. The lost 3 minutes to the movie could have explained Keaton's character better than just having him behave like a brute with a greedy and sexual appetite.