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Writer:
Buster Keaton (writer)
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Release Date:
24 September 1923 (USA) more
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Tagline:
A Metro Picture in 6 Parts
Plot:
The misadventures of Buster in three seperate historical periods. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Margaret Leahy ... The Girl

Wallace Beery ... The Villain

Buster Keaton ... The Boy
Lillian Lawrence ... The Girl's Mother
Joe Roberts ... The Girl's Father
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Runtime:
63 min | Spain:55 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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The most famous stunt in the movie was actually built around what went wrong with the original stunt. Keaton intended to leap from a board projecting from one building onto the roof of another building, but he fell short, smashing into the brick wall and falling into a net off-screen. He was injured badly enough to be laid up for three days. But when he saw the film (his camera operators were instructed to always keep filming, no matter what happened), he not only kept the mishap, he built on it, adding the fall through three awnings, the loose downspout that propels him into the firehouse, and the slide down the fire pole. more
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Pleasant & Funny, 13 August 2001
Author: Snow Leopard from Ohio

This is a pleasant and funny combination of slapstick and satire, period humor and romantic comedy. It does not have quite the number of sustained chase/stunt sequences as in most of Keaton's features, but instead there are a lot of fine subtle gags of all different kinds.

In each of the "Three Ages", Buster and Wallace Beery vie for the affections of the same woman, with amusing and unpredictable results. The simple romantic triangle theme sets up a lot of good material, on the one hand lending itself to a lot of gags about the unchanging nature of romantic courtship, and on the other hand being used for a lot of deliberate anachronisms that are often extremely funny. Beery makes a nice foil for Keaton, and the girl's parents also have some good moments.

This one usually gets lost in the crowd among so many brilliant Keaton masterpieces, but it works very well and is definitely worth seeing for any fan of silent comedy.

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