Sherlock Jr (1924)
Country: US
Technical: bw 45m (24fps)
Director: Buster Keaton
Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire
Synopsis:
A cinema projectionist fancies himself something of an amateur sleuth, but his knowledge backfires on him when a rival frames him for the theft of his putative father-in-law's pocket watch.
Review:
Cue some impeccably timed and edited sequences of inventive comedy from the master of deadpan. The central story is a classic piece of 'innocent man clears his name', except that it is the heroine's detective work that saves the day; the film within the film is a dream sequence that, like Hamlet's Murder of Gonzago, shadows the outer plot, and with which Keaton famously (and irrelevantly) interacts, as in The Purple Rose of Cairo, before playing a key role as a true sleuth of Holmesian proportions.
Country: US
Technical: bw 45m (24fps)
Director: Buster Keaton
Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire
Synopsis:
A cinema projectionist fancies himself something of an amateur sleuth, but his knowledge backfires on him when a rival frames him for the theft of his putative father-in-law's pocket watch.
Review:
Cue some impeccably timed and edited sequences of inventive comedy from the master of deadpan. The central story is a classic piece of 'innocent man clears his name', except that it is the heroine's detective work that saves the day; the film within the film is a dream sequence that, like Hamlet's Murder of Gonzago, shadows the outer plot, and with which Keaton famously (and irrelevantly) interacts, as in The Purple Rose of Cairo, before playing a key role as a true sleuth of Holmesian proportions.
Country: US
Technical: bw 45m (24fps)
Director: Buster Keaton
Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire
Synopsis:
A cinema projectionist fancies himself something of an amateur sleuth, but his knowledge backfires on him when a rival frames him for the theft of his putative father-in-law's pocket watch.
Review:
Cue some impeccably timed and edited sequences of inventive comedy from the master of deadpan. The central story is a classic piece of 'innocent man clears his name', except that it is the heroine's detective work that saves the day; the film within the film is a dream sequence that, like Hamlet's Murder of Gonzago, shadows the outer plot, and with which Keaton famously (and irrelevantly) interacts, as in The Purple Rose of Cairo, before playing a key role as a true sleuth of Holmesian proportions.