By 1920, Buster Keaton was already a star. He'd had a series of successful shorts alongside Fatty Arbuckle, and had graduated to solo shorts with the success of One Week, which was a pretty damned ambitious piece for a first time outing. The Saphead was supposed to be his coming out party, and as successful as the film was financially, it was merely a brief glimpse of the magic to come. The Saphead is an adaptation of two pieces, a play called The New Henrietta, and the novel The Henrietta, which was adapted from the play. In the story, Buster plays Bertie Van Alstyne, the pampered son of the wealthiest stock broker in New York, Nicholas Van Alstyne. When Dad gets tired of Bertie's...
- 7/31/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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