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Buster Keaton: New York
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Buster Keaton plays a young lawyer who will inherit $7 million at 7 o'clock on his 27th birthday--provided he is married. Long before discovering this, Keaton has pursued a lifelong courtship of Ruth Dwyer, whose refusals have become ritualistic over the years (the passage of time is amusingly conveyed by showing a puppy grow to adulthood). He proposes again, but this time she turns him down because she thinks (mistakenly) that he wants her only so that he can claim his inheritance. The doleful Keaton is ... obliged to spend the few hours left before the 7 PM deadline in search of a bride--any bride. He has no luck whatsoever until his pal T. Roy Barnes prints the story of Keaton's incoming legacy in the local newspaper. As a result, literally hundreds of women, bedecked in veils and bearing bouquets, chase Keaton through the busy streets of Los Angeles.
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Buster Keaton rises to new heights as he sails heavenward in a balloon. He bumps into clouds, and in trying to bring down a duck, punctures the gas bag and crashes in the woods where he saves Phyllis Haver from a bear and falls in love. His courtship and the ‘balloonatic’ events that follow are hilarious!
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Buster Keaton plays a clumsy gumshoe in this funny and classic comedy. Will he solve the case or will it slip away as the new detecive follows the clues to the mystery.
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Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle got Keaton started in pictures and before long Keaton had his own studio, from which he acted, directed and even edited scores of films. He became famous for his slapstick comedy and his breathtaking stunts during the silent era. The advent of the "talkies," ... brought a new breed to Hollywood who concentrated on verbal jokes and dialogue and who had little use for Keaton's brand of physical comedy.
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Keaton makes that leap of faith again and again in his films. He trusts the universe, no matter how many reasons it gives him not to. It may be an unfathomable and inhospitable place (no wonder Keaton was a favorite of the existentialists), but Buster intuitively grasps the underlying logic beneath all the confusion. Keaton's comedy is founded firmly on the principles of Newtonian physics, the invisible substructure that alone keeps the universe from simply flying apart in all directions.
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The Museum of Television and Radio in New York City hosted a series devoted to Buster's many appearances on 50s and 60s TV shows, with the help of Eleanor Keaton, and advice of Patty Tobias from The Damfinos. All these shows listed can be viewed at a console in the MT&R library:
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