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on Page 1: Short Profile Video & DVD Collections Silent Shorts Links on this page: Silent Features Sound Films 1929-33 Works About Buster Keaton on Page 3: Sound Films 1934-66

Silent Features

"The Round-Up" [Famous Players-Lasky 1920]
Directed by George Melford; starring Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
video not available; full credits from IMDb

	"The Saphead" [Metro 1920] Directed by Herbert Blaché Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2001] for $19.95 Kino Video b&w DVD [11/2001] for $26.99 full credits from IMDb video also contains "The High Sign" & "One Week" shorts
	"The Three Ages" [Metro 1923]: a spoof of D.W. Griffith's 1916 epic "Intolerance" Co-directed by Edward F. Cline Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2001] for $19.95 Kino Video b&w DVD [11/99] for $26.99 full credits from IMDb video also contains "The Goat" & "My Wife's Relations" shorts
	"Our Hospitality" [Schenck/MGM 1923] Co-directed by John G. Blystone with Joe Keaton & Natalie Talmadge full credits from IMDb "Sherlock Jr." [BKP/MGM 1924] with Joe Keaton; full credits from IMDb listed on National Film Registry 1991; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (10/2005) Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2001] for $18.95 Kino Video b&w DVD [11/99] for $21.99
	"The Navigator" [BKP/MGM 1924] Co-directed by Donald Crisp Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2001] for $19.95 Kino Video b&w DVD [11/99] for $26.99 full credits from IMDb video also contains "The Boat" & "The Love Nest" shorts
	"Seven Chances" [BKP/MGM 1925] Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2001] for $19.95 Kino Video b&w DVD [1/2000] for $26.99 full credits from IMDb video also contains "The Balloonatic" & "Neighbors" shorts
	"Go West" [BKP/MGM 1925] Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2001] for $19.95 Kino Video b&w DVD [11/99] for $26.99 full credits from IMDb video also contains "The Scarecrow" & "The Paleface" shorts
	"Battling Butler" [BKP/MGM 1926] Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2001] for $19.95 b&w DVD [10/99] for $26.99 via Amazon.com full credits from IMDb video also contains "The Haunted House" & "The Frozen North" shorts
	"The General" [BKP/UA 1927] "one of the best five silent films ever made" per A.F.I.; listed on National Film Registry 1989 Co-written & co-directed by & starring Buster Keaton, co-starring Annabelle Lee Image Ent. b&w DVD [10/99] for $26.99 Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2001] for $19.95 full credits from IMDb video & DVD above also contain "The Playhouse" & "Cops" shorts

poster source not found Jef Films b&w VHS [5/98] for $19.99

	"College" [Schenck/UA 1927] Co-directed by James W. Horne Kino Video b&w VHS [6/95] for $29.95 ** Kino Video b&w DVD [1/2000] for $26.99 full credits from IMDb video also contains "Hard Luck", "The Electric House" & "The Blacksmith" shorts
	Madacy Ent. b&w VHS [12/97] for $4.99
	"Steamboat Bill Jr." [BKP/UA 1928] Co-directed by Charles Reisner Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2001] for $19.95 b&w DVD [10/99] for $26.99 full credits from IMDb video also contains "Daydreams" & "Convict 13" shorts Jef Films b&w VHS [5/98] out of stock/used

                     

	"The Cameraman" [MGM 1928] Warner b&w VHS [9/2000] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb
	"Spite Marriage" [MGM 1929] Co-directed by Edward Sedgwick Warner b&w VHS [9/2000] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb

Early Sound Films

Hollywood Review of 1929 [MGM 1929]
video not available; full credits from IMDb

	"Free and Easy" [MGM March 1930] Directed by Edward Sedgwick Warner Video [1/93] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb Buster made a French-language version ('Le Metteur en Scene') and a Spanish-language version ('Estrellados')
	"Doughboys" [aka 'Forward March!'; MGM Aug 1930] Directed by Edward Sedgwick Warner VHS [1/93] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb Spanish-language version ('De Frente Marchen')
	"Sidewalks of New York" [MGM Sept 1931] Directed by Zion Myers & Jules White Warner b&w VHS [12/93] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb French-language version 'Buster Millionaire' not listed at IMDb
	poster no longer available [Oct 2003]

"Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" [aka 'Romeo In Pyjamas'; MGM 1931]
Directed by Edward Sedgwick
Madacy Ent. VHS [1/95] out of stock
full credits from IMDb; Buster made both a French-language version ('Buster Se Marie',
directed by Claude Autant-Lara & Edward Brophy) and a German-language
version ('Casanova Wider Willen', directed by Edward Brophy)

"Wir schalten um auf Hollywood" [MGM 1931]
German-language feature; video not available; full credits from IMDb

The Slippery Pearls [April 1931]
industry charity short with all-star cast; full credits from IMDb

"The Passionate Plumber" [MGM 1932]
Directed by Edward Sedgwick; co-starring Jimmy Durante
video not available; full credits from IMDb
French-language version ('Le Plombier Amoureux')

"Talking Screen Snapshots" [Columbia 1932]
all-star cast; video not available; full credits from IMDb

	"Speak Easily" [Hal Roach/MGM Aug 1932] a sendup of 'The Blue Angel' Directed by Edward Sedgwick; co-starring Jimmy Durante & Thelma Todd Warner b&w VHS [1/93] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb
	"What! No Beer?" [MGM 1933] Buster's last star billing; directed by Edward Sedgwick co-starring Jimmy Durante & Roscoe Ates Warner b&w VHS [1/93] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb

Works About Buster Keaton

	"Buster Keaton Remembered" [2001] by Eleanor Keaton & Jeffrey Vance Illustrated with 235 b&w photographs Harry N. Abrams 12x9½ hardcover [5/2001] for $31.50
	"Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton" [1999] by John Bengtson & Kevin Brownlow Santa Monica Press 8½x11 pb [12/99] for $17.46
	"The Theater & Cinema of Buster Keaton" [1999] by Robert Knopf Princeton Univ Press 9x6 pb [8/99] for $12.76
	"Keaton's Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter" [1996] by Gabriella Oldham Southern Illinois Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [2/96] for $31.99 Southern Illinois Univ Press hardcover [2/96] for $45.00
	"Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography" [1995] by Joanna E. Rapf & Gary L. Green Greenwood Publng hardcover [2/95] for $71.94
	"The Sound of Buster Keaton" [1995] by David Macleod Buster Books, London limited edition pb [10/95] ISBN 0952641305

"Buster: A Legend in Laughter" [1995] by Larry Edwards
paperback | hardcover both out of print/used

"Buster Keaton en España: Images from Keaton On The Set of 'A Funny Thing...' "
A documentary film produced in Spain and released in September of 1995

	"Buster Keaton Enters Into Paradise" [1994] by Dick Higgins surreal, poetic work based on eleven games of Scrabble & Buster's movie titles Small Press Distribution pb [10/94] for $13.99
	"The Complete Films of Buster Keaton" [1993] by Jim Kline Carol/Citadel Press 11x8.4 pb [6/93] out of print/used

"Buster's Bedroom" [1990]; co-written & directed by Rebecca Horn
video not available; full credits from IMDb
"Busters Bedroom: A Film Book" [1991]
by Rebecca Horn, Sven Nykvist & Martin Mosebach
Distributed Art Publrs hardcover [10/91]for $39.95
"Rebecca Horn: Diving Through Buster's Bedroom" [1990]
by Germano Celant & Davide Fabbri
hardcover [1990] out of print/used

	"Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down" [1988] by Tom Dardis Univ MN Press 8¾x6 pb [2/2002] for $13.27 Proscenium Publng 9x6 pb [11/88] for $17.95
	"Buster Keaton: A Hard Act To Follow" [HBO mini-series 1987] Written & directed by Kevin Brownlow & David Gill b&w box set [8/89] 3 tapes for $34.99 "From Vaudeville to Movies" b&w [8/89] for $19.99 "Star Without a Studio" b&w [8/89] for $19.99 "Genius Recognized" b&w [8/89] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb
	"Buster Keaton: Cut Too The Chase" [1985] by Marion Meade Da Capo Press 9¼x6 pb [10/97] for $12.60 Harper Hardcover [9/85] out of print/used
	"My Wonderful World of Slapstick" [Doubleday 1960] Buster Keaton autobiography, with Charles Samuels Da Capo Press pb [4/88] for $11.20

"The Look of Buster Keaton" [1983] by Robert Benayoun
St Martin Press [10/83] out of print/used

"The Film Career of Buster Keaton" [1977]
by George Wead
Redgrave Publng [1977] out of print/used

"The Best of Buster: Classic Comedy Scenes
Direct from the Films of Buster Keaton" [1976]
Crown/Darien [10/76] out of print/used

"Buster Keaton & the Dynamics of Visual Wit" [1976]
by George Wead & Garth S. Lowett
Ayer Company hardcover [4/76] out of print/used

"The Golden Age of Buster Keaton" [documentary film 1975]
Produced by Raymond Rohauer & Jay Ward
video not available; full credits from IMDb

"Four Clowns" [1970]: also Laurel & Hardy, Charley Chase
video not available; full credits from IMDb

"Buster Keaton" biography [1969] by David Robinson Indiana Univ Press pb [2/69] out of print/used Indiana Univ Press hardcover [2/69] out of print/used B.F.I./Secker & Warburg hardcover [1/69] out of print/used

"The Great Stone Face" [docu 1968]
video not available; full credits from IMDb

"Keaton" biography [1966] by Rudi Blesh Macmillan 6x9¼ hardcover [1966] out of print/used

"The Buster Keaton Story" [1957]: starring Donald O'Connor
lousy script; video not available; full credits from IMDb

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