An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.
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- TriviaThe money the real Buster Keaton earned selling the rights to his life story allowed him to buy some property in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California. He lived on the property the rest of his life.
- GoofsThe marquee advertises The Jazz Singer (1927) as being "all taking," which it was not, nor was it ever advertised as such.
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Buster Keaton: I've done almost 15,000 performances on the vaudeville stage. I know exactly when people laugh at me and why.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Great Buster (2018)
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Having subjected myself to this film again, I found it was possible to find some small enjoyment in it by seeing it all as a big put-on, where the utter falsity of everything presented was itself a joke of sorts (whatever the filmmakers' actual intentions were, which I don't really care to know).
O'Connor was no slouch when it came to physical comedy, so he was a natural choice to play the part and does well in the scenes that recreate authentic Keaton gags, redeeming the film somewhat. Even so, these recreated gags don't always make sense in the context in which they're presented, and in any case, there are not enough of them to make up for all the other nonsense.
O'Connor was no slouch when it came to physical comedy, so he was a natural choice to play the part and does well in the scenes that recreate authentic Keaton gags, redeeming the film somewhat. Even so, these recreated gags don't always make sense in the context in which they're presented, and in any case, there are not enough of them to make up for all the other nonsense.
- Richard Keith Carson
- Nov 4, 2020
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- $1,400,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was The Buster Keaton Story (1957) officially released in Canada in English?
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