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Buster Keaton: Features
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When he stands to inherit a fortune if he can get married by 7 o'clock, Buster Keaton becomes the quarry of an army of would-be brides (and gets caught in a shower of boulders) in the feature presentation. Next, a high fence can't keep Buster from his next-door girlfriend in "Neighbors" (1920), and he takes to the sky as "The Balloonatic" (1923). 96 min. total. Standard; Soundtrack: music score. Silent with music score.
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Buster Keaton's first full-length silent feature is a parody of D.W. Griffith's spectacle "INTOLERANCE" with Buster playing three stories with three plots in alternating sequences. The stone age, the Roman era, and the roaring '20's are the three time frames that these stories take place in.
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In College, a feature that came four years later, Keaton once again employed an early sequence to establish his central character in fine detail, using no intertitles and only minimal interaction with other characters. The film opens with Keaton's character, Ronald, rushing with his mother through a violent downpour to his high school graduation. The pair arrives at the hall soaked to the skin and evidently somewhat late. Ronald is so flustered that he neglects to shut his umbrella as he escorts his mother down the aisle. She takes a seat in the front row, while Ronald finds a chair along the wall to the side at the front of the hall.
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