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The art of Buster Keaton: Battling Butler with The haunted house and The frozen north
- Title
- The art of Buster Keaton: Battling Butler with The haunted house and The frozen north [videorecording] / Buster Keaton Productions/MGM.
- Publication
- New York : Kino on Video, 1921-26.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966.
- Description
- 1 videocassette (108 min.) : si. (with a musical score), b&w/col. (tinted); 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Battling Butler (1926), b&w, 21 min.: Based on the musical by Stanley Brightman and Austin Melford, this comedy combines Keaton's deadpan demeanor and physical agility with a dramatic storyline. Keaton stars as Alfred Butler, an indolent young man whose wealthy father sends him into the country hoping it will make a man out of him. Ironically, he is mistaken for "Battling Butler," a fierce prizefighter. To impress his lady love, Alfred embarks on a comically inept training regimen, but his charade is complicated by the arrival of the true boxing champion. In the end, the diminutive combatant summons up the needed courage and triumphs over the boxer. The haunted house (921), color (tinted), 20 min.: Buster Keaton is a bank clerk who arrives at work in a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce. He becomes embroiled with a villainous bank teller who maintains a gang of men dressed as ghosts to frighten people away from his house which is full of booby traps. To further complicate matters, a visting opera company doing Faust gets mixed up with the whole thing. The frozen north (1922), b&w, 17 min.: Filmed on location near Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of northern California, this Keaton comedy is a tour-de-force of fantasy and a parody of movie legends William S. Hart and Erich von Stroheim. It is also noteworthy for its imposition of urban living on the rugged West - the subway station from which the hero initially emerges and the taxi-slege that unexpectedly pulls up in the snowy wilderness.
- Alternative Title
- Battling Butler
- Haunted house
- Frozen north
- Subjects
- Credits (note)
- Battling Butler: Director, Buster Keaton; screenplay, Paul Gerard Smith, Al Boasberg, Charles Smith, Lex Neal; photography, J. Devereux Jennings, Bert Haines;The haunted house: Directors, writers, Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline;The frozen north: Directors, writers, Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline.
- Performer (note)
- Battling Butler: Buster Keaton, Sally O'Neil, Snitz Edwards, Francis McDonald; The haunted house: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox; The frozen north: Buster Keaton, Bonnie Hill.
- Contents
- Battling Butler -- The haunted house -- The frozen north.
- Title
- The art of Buster Keaton: Battling Butler with The haunted house and The frozen north [videorecording] / Buster Keaton Productions/MGM.
- Imprint
- New York : Kino on Video, 1921-26.
- Credits
- Battling Butler: Director, Buster Keaton; screenplay, Paul Gerard Smith, Al Boasberg, Charles Smith, Lex Neal; photography, J. Devereux Jennings, Bert Haines;The haunted house: Directors, writers, Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline;The frozen north: Directors, writers, Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline.
- Cast
- Battling Butler: Buster Keaton, Sally O'Neil, Snitz Edwards, Francis McDonald; The haunted house: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox; The frozen north: Buster Keaton, Bonnie Hill.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966.
- Added Title
- Battling Butler [videorecording]Haunted house [videorecording]Frozen north [videorecording]
- Branch Call Number
- VTH 3214 A