The Buster Keaton Story

1957
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1h 31m

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Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming, and Donald O'Connor in The Buster Keaton Story (1957)

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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Trivia
The 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.

Goofs
The marquee advertises The Jazz Singer (1927) as being "all taking," which it was not, nor was it ever advertised as such.

Quotes
Buster Keaton: I've done almost 15,000 performances on the vaudeville stage. I know exactly when people laugh at me and why.

Connections
Featured in The Great Buster (2018)

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Donald O'Connor is good. The movie isn't.

Donald O'Connor does an amazing job recreating Buster Keaton's style and routines in this otherwise dreadful script, credited to Sidney Sheldon and Robert Smith. Buster was arguably a finer comedian than Chaplin, but fell into alcoholism for a number of reasons. This script has so little to do with his life it should never have been titled as it was. Read a real biography, and watch some of Buster's many wonderful movies, including his last, "The Railrodder". I remember watching "Waterworld (1995)", and thinking how poorly it compared to "Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)", not least on value for the money expended on making it. And don't watch another movie until you have seen "The General (1927)". His movies are his biography, not this rotten script.