Buster Keaton's second feature, Our Hospitality is his first masterpiece. He plays a New York city boy who travels south to receive his inheritance, only to discover he's in the center of a generations-old feud. While his sworn enemies (the family of the girl he has fallen in love with, naturally) vow to gun him down, Southern hospitality forbids them from harming him as long as he's a guest in their home. Plenty of comic mileage is mined from Buster's desperate attempts to prolong his stay, and highlights include a deliriously surreal train (run by Keaton's father, Joe) and a heroic rescue involving a rope, a log, and a mighty waterfall.
Sherlock Jr. is a delightfully surreal fantasy of a film projectionist and amateur detective who climbs into his movie screen. Like... Learn More
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I recently bought this two-disc collection of classic Buster Keaton films and two-reel shorts from my local Hastings store and for only $ 8.00,I was suprised that it wasn't really that all bad.This collection,produced by Brentwood/BCI Eclipse,contains the following three features,two of which are classic silent features such as Keaton's 1926 masterpiece THE GENERAL and his 1927 effort COLLEGE.It also includes Keaton's third sound film made at MGM,the 1931 feature PARLOR,BEDROOM,AND BATH.But perhaps another great deal for this DVD is the inclusion of six Keaton two-reel classic shorts such as THE BOAT,THE PALEFACE,THE PLAYHOUSE (all released in 1921),THE ELECTRIC HOUSE,THE FROZEN NORTH,and COPS (all released in 1922).Picture quality on THE GENERAL is the same transfer that has appeared in... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Buster Keaton DVD Release Date: Released the 11 January 2005 Special Order
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The Buster Keaton Collection presents three of the first films (one, The Cameraman, a near masterpiece) Keaton made for MGM beginning in 1928, an arrangement that gradually ushered the great comic actor and director into the sound era but ultimately deprived him of creative control. The Cameraman, considered by many to be Keaton's last important silent work, is an unusual story about a tintype portrait photographer (Keaton) who becomes a newsreel cameraman in order to win the heart of a secretary (Marceline Day). After flubbing an assignment by double-exposing some action footage, the hapless hero tries to prove himself in several memorable sequences of Keatonesque knockabout comedy (including a Chinatown street battle). There are also a couple of grace notes, such as... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Buster Keaton Director(s): Edward Sedgwick - Buster Keaton DVD Release Date: Released the 07 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This is my favorite Judy Garland movie. The DVD is a faithful reproduction of the movie and has, as expected, a pictorial clarity unheard of in the movie era. The flawless reproduction is tarnished, however, in a scene near the end of the movie. In the scene, the lights are low and were corrected to present reality. They were rendered so dark that the stars, Van Johnson and Judy Garland, were nothing more than silhouettes on the screen. From the tape version of the movie, this scene was one of Judy's most hilarious scenes, attributed to the expressions she delivered in response to Mr. Johnson's advances, both of which were unseen in the black. The DVD is worth watching, but, for students of Judy Garland's talents, a tape version clarifies the omissions of the DVD. More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Judy Garland - Van Johnson Director(s): Buster Keaton - Robert Z. Leonard DVD Release Date: Released the 06 April 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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