Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname The Great Stone Face. He was recognized as the seventh-greatest d... more
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Sunset Boulevard
(1950)
Drama
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Billy Wilder
Cast:
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark
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The General
(1926)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, War
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
Runtime:
79 min
Director:
Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom
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Sherlock Jr.
(1924)
Action, Comedy, Mystery
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.
Runtime:
45 min
Director:
Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly, Ward Crane
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
(1963)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Runtime:
163 min
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Cast:
Spencer Tracy, Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Sid Caesar
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Limelight
(1952)
Drama, Music, Romance
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
Runtime:
137 min
Director:
Charles Chaplin
Cast:
Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin
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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
(1928)
Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
The just out of college effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was little.
Runtime:
70 min
Director:
Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence
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Around the World in Eighty Days
(1956)
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Runtime:
175 min
Director:
Michael Anderson
Cast:
David Niven, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley, Cantinflas, Charles Boyer
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Our Hospitality
(1923)
Comedy, Romance, Western
A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
Runtime:
73 min
Director:
John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Joe Roberts, Natalie Talmadge, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Francis X. Bushman Jr., Craig Ward
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One Week
(1920)
Comedy
The story involves two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, who receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in "one week." A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates. The movie recounts Keaton's struggle to assemble the house according to this new "arrangement."
Runtime:
22 min
Director:
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Joe Roberts
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The Navigator
(1924)
Action, Comedy, Romance
The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their honeymoon. When circumstances find both Rollo and Betsy on the wrong ship, they end up having adventures on the high seas.
Runtime:
65 min
Director:
Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Frederick Vroom
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Seven Chances
(1925)
Comedy, Romance
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Runtime:
56 min
Director:
Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer, Frances Raymond
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
(1966)
Comedy, Music
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Richard Lester
Cast:
Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford, Jack Gilford
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Cops
(1922)
Comedy, Family
Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.
Runtime:
18 min
Director:
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox, Edward F. Cline, Steve Murphy
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In the Good Old Summertime
(1949)
Comedy, Music, Romance
In this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Buster Keaton, Robert Z. Leonard
Cast:
Judy Garland, Van Johnson, Spring Byington, S.Z. Sakall, Clinton Sundberg
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The Play House
(1921)
Comedy, Fantasy
After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.
Runtime:
24 min
Director:
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Virginia Fox, Joe Murphy, Joe Roberts
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The Scarecrow
(1920)
Comedy, Family
Buster competes with another farmhand for the love of the farmer's daughter.
Runtime:
19 min
Director:
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely, Joe Keaton, Edward F. Cline
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Neighbors
(1920)
Comedy, Romance
The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.
Runtime:
18 min
Director:
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Joe Keaton, Edward F. Cline
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College
(1927)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Brilliant in his studies and dismissive of athletics, Ronald finishes high school at the top of his class. But in college his uptight attitude doesn't win him any points with his sports-loving classmates, and pretty coed Mary ignores him in favor of brutish jock Jeff. Hoping to impress Mary, Ronald makes a buffoon of himself at every s...
Runtime:
66 min
Director:
James W. Horne, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley, Harold Goodwin, Snitz Edwards
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The Goat
(1921)
Comedy
A series of adventures begins when Buster is mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the evil bad guy.
Runtime:
23 min
Director:
Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Malcolm St. Clair, Edward F. Cline
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Three Ages
(1923)
Comedy, Drama
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In...
Runtime:
64 min
Director:
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Joe Roberts, Lillian Lawrence
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Go West
(1925)
Comedy, Western
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
Runtime:
69 min
Director:
Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers, Ray Thompson, Brown Eyes
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The Paleface
(1922)
Comedy, Western
A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly. This tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white oil tycoons are trying to force them from their land. The Indian warriors give chase to Keaton, who ingeniously escapes their efforts to kill him. A...
Runtime:
25 min
Director:
Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
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The Boat
(1921)
Comedy
Buster's handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. At the harbor he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. The rest is a series of adventures he and his family have with t...
Runtime:
26 min
Director:
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Sybil Seely
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The High Sign
(1921)
Comedy, Crime
Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daughter by outfitting their home with trick devices.
Runtime:
21 min
Director:
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety, Joe Roberts, Al St. John
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Convict 13
(1920)
Comedy
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
Runtime:
22 min
Director:
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline, Joe Keaton
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Battling Butler
(1926)
Comedy
Meek millionaire Alfred Butler goes on a camping excursion with his faithful servant. Once in the wilderness, Alfred ignores outdoor activities in favor of trying to woo a charming mountain girl, who wants nothing to do with her spoiled suitor. Trying to impress the girl, Alfred masquerades as boxing star "Battling" Butler.
Runtime:
77 min
Director:
Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Sally O'Neil, Walter James, Budd Fine, Francis McDonald
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The Electric House
(1922)
Comedy
Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.
Runtime:
23 min
Director:
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Keaton, Louise Keaton, Myra Keaton
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The Balloonatic
(1923)
Comedy, Romance
Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon which lands Buster in the wilderness proves useful later on as their canoe is about go over a waterfall.
Runtime:
26 min
Director:
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Babe London, Phyllis Haver
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The Haunted House
(1921)
Comedy, Horror
Buster Keaton is a bank teller who becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters, and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.
Runtime:
24 min
Director:
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline, Natalie Talmadge
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The Blacksmith
(1922)
Comedy
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.
Runtime:
23 min
Director:
Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
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Day Dreams
(1922)
Comedy
In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, Buster goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various jobs which her imagination expands into much nobler ones than those that he is actually attempting.
Runtime:
25 min
Director:
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Renée Adorée, Joe Roberts, Joe Keaton, Edward F. Cline
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Hard Luck
(1921)
Comedy
A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.
Runtime:
22 min
Director:
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
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The Love Nest
(1923)
Comedy
In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at the sea when he's caught by pirates.
Runtime:
24 min
Director:
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox
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Spite Marriage
(1929)
Comedy
An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
Runtime:
76 min
Director:
Edward Sedgwick
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle, Leila Hyams, William Bechtel
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My Wife's Relations
(1922)
Comedy
Buster is falsely accused of breaking a window by a woman and is taken into a courtroom. Thinking that Buster and the woman are engaged, the judge mistakenly marries them and Buster is quickly taken home by the woman to meet her family. At first unwelcoming, the family begins to treat Buster nice when they come to believe that he is go...
Runtime:
24 min
Director:
Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Kate Price, Monte Collins, Wheezer Dell, Harry Madison
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The Frozen North
(1922)
Comedy, Western
This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing a gambling house. When he thinks he spies his wife making love to another man he shoots them both only to learn it isn't his cabin after all.
Runtime:
18 min
Director:
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely, Bonnie Hill, Freeman Wood
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The Railrodder
(1965)
Comedy
After literally swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, an Englishman takes a country trip across Canada on a railcar.
Runtime:
24 min
Director:
Gerald Potterton, Buster Keaton
Cast:
Buster Keaton
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Beach Blanket Bingo
(1965)
Comedy, Music
In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
William Asher
Cast:
Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Deborah Walley, Harvey Lembeck, John Ashley