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Originaltitel: The Blacksmith

1922
21 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuBuster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.

Regie
- Buster Keaton
- Malcolm St. Clair
Drehbuch
- Buster Keaton
- Malcolm St. Clair
Hauptbesetzung

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6,8/10

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Regie
- Buster Keaton
- Malcolm St. Clair
Drehbuch
- Buster Keaton
- Malcolm St. Clair
Hauptbesetzung

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Buster Keaton

Blacksmith's Assistant
(as 'Buster' Keaton)

Edward F. Cline

Engineer
(Nicht genannt)

Virginia Fox

Horsewoman
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Billy Franey

Sheriff
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Joe Roberts

Blacksmith
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Malcolm St. Clair

Engineer
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Wissenswertes
The gleaming Rolls-Royce destroyed in the film was reportedly a wedding present given to Buster Keaton by his in-laws. By the time this film was made, relations with them had soured considerably.

Alternative Versionen
In June 2013, Argentine film collector, curator and historian Fernando Martín Peña (who had previously unearthed the complete version of Metropolis) discovered an alternate version of this film, a sort of remake whose last reel differs completely from the previously known version. Film historians have since found evidence that the version of The Blacksmith Peña uncovered was a substantial reshoot undertaken months after completion of principal photography and a preview screening in New York. They now believe the rediscovered version was Keaton's final cut intended for wide distribution. Following Peña's discovery, a third version of the film, featuring at least one scene which doesn't occur in either of the other two, was found in the collection of former film distributor Blackhawk Films.

Verbindungen
Featured in Biography: Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker (1995)

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8/10

Early Keaton solo film is still funny almost 100 years later

This film bears a strong resemblance to the Keaton/Arbuckle collaboration "The Garage". Here Keaton is the somewhat inept assistant to a bully (Big Joe Roberts) in a garage where he works as a combination blacksmith and auto mechanic. Ordinary props and tools of the trade become instruments of mischief and mayhem, along with some not-so-ordinary devices of Buster's own design.

During this short film he completely wrecks a new Rolls Royce, a car that retailed for ten thousand dollars back in the early 20's. Did the Keaton Studios have the budget for the destruction of such a vehicle? Some have conjectured that this might have been the Rolls Royce that Keaton received as a wedding present from his brother-in-law and benefactor, Joe Schenck. Also conjectured is that the scene where he is shoeing a horse and equating it with trying to sell shoes to a finicky female customer could have been a dig at his new wife's excessive clothes shopping. This film was made about a year after his marriage to Natalie Talmadge - a marriage that even started out on very rocky ground, and these would have been the kind of passive-aggressive stunts that Keaton was well known for.

I'd recommend it.