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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
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"The General" [BKP/U.A. Feb 1927]
"one of the best five silent films ever made" per A.F.I. Co-written & co-directed by & starring Buster Keaton, co-starring Annabelle Lee; listed on National Film Registry 1989 Kino Video b&w silent on Blu-ray [10/2009] for $20.99 Image Ent. b&w DVD [10/99] for $22.49 Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2001] out of prodn/used video & DVD above also contain "The Playhouse" & "Cops" shorts |
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poster source not found Jef Films b&w VHS [5/98] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia 
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"College" [Schenck/U.A. 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 |
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Madacy Ent. b&w VHS [12/97] for $4.99 |
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"Steamboat Bill Jr." [BKP/U.A. 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 |
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"The Cameraman" [MGM 1928]
Warner b&w VHS [9/2000] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
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"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
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"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') |
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"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') |
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"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 |
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poster no longer available [Oct 2003] |
"Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" [aka 'Romeo In Pyjamas'; M.G.M. 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 Stolen Jools" [Paramount April 1931]
| A short comedy film produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanitarium, shown in movie theaters across America. It features many cameo appearances by the film stars of the day, from multiple studios. The film was thought to be lost, until a print turned up in the U.K. in the 1990s under the alternate title "The Slippery Pearls"; a print under that title was found in the U.S. also. The simple plot has police trying to solve the theft of Norma Shearer's pearls during the 'Screen Stars Annual Ball'.
Directed by William C. McGann; starring Norma Shearer; cameos include Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Joe E. Brown, Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Eddie Kane, Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, Bert Lytell, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, the 'Our Gang' kids, Eugene Pallette, Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, Wheeler & Woolsey, and Fay Wray
full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"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/M.G.M. Aug 1932] a sendup of 'The Blue Angel'; directed by Edward Sedgwick; co-starring Jimmy Durante, Thelma Todd, Ruth Selwyn & Hedda Hopper Triad Prodns 'enhanced' b&w DVD [1/2009] for $19.95 Alpha Video b&w DVD [6/2004] for $7.98 Warner b&w VHS [1/93] for $24.99 full credits from IMDb |
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"What! No Beer?" [M.G.M. 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: From Silents To Shorts" [2006 featurette]
Christopher Bird's documentary "So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM" [2004]
"Buster Keaton and Fatty Roscoe Arbuckle" [France 2002]
26-minute TV documentary written & directed by Laurent Preyale; full credits at IMDb
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"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 |
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"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 |
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"The Theater & Cinema of Buster Keaton" [1999] by Robert Knopf Princeton Univ Press 9x6 pb [8/99] for $12.76 |
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"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 |
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"Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography" [1995] by Joanna E. Rapf & Gary L. Green Greenwood Publng hardcover [2/95] for $71.94 |
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"The Sound of Buster Keaton" [1995] by David Macleod Buster Books, London limited edition pb [10/95] out of print/rare |
"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
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"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 |
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"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
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"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 |
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"Buster Keaton: A Hard Act To Follow" [H.B.O. mini-series 1987]
Written & directed by Kevin Brownlow & David Gill H.B.O. b&w VHS 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 |
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"Buster Keaton: Cut To The Chase" [1985] by Marion Meade Da Capo Press 9¼x6 pb [10/97] for $12.60 Harper Hardcover [9/85] out of print/used |
"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" [Fox b&w docu feature 1970] Written & directed by Robert Youngson; co-starring Laurel & Hardy and Charley Chase video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb |
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"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 |
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"Four Great Comedians: Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton, Langdon" [1968] by Donald W. McCaffrey A.S. Barnes pb [1968] out of print/used A.S. Barnes pb [1968] out of print/used |
video not available; full credits from IMDb
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"Keaton" biography [1966] by Rudi Blesh Macmillan 6x9¼ hardcover [1966] out of print/used |
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"My Wonderful World of Slapstick" [Doubleday 1960] Buster Keaton autobiography, with Charles Samuels Da Capo Press pb [4/88] for $11.20 |
"The Buster Keaton Story" [1957]
starring Donald O'Connor; lousy script; video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb
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