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Buster Keaton: Series
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Synopsis: When millionaire Peter Hedley Lamar Jr. (Buster Keaton) is smitten by the loveliness of an Army nurse (Dorothy Appleby), he decides to enlist because the woman will pay attention only to soldiers. Once in the service... he spends most of his time cleaning spittoons and fending off theRead More
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When collegiate bookworm Keaton falls for a pretty co-ed who only has eyes for jocks, he hits the playing fields in a series of wildly hilarious attempts to win her. At first he’s all thumbs, but by the end of the picture, when he hears the campus bully is forcing himself upon her, Buster jumps a pond, hurdles row after row of high bushes and pole-vaults through a second storey window of the women’s dorm to save her.
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Keaton was the comic who greeted the hostile world without a flicker of emotion, and overcame its physical hazards with a series of breathtaking but coolly calculated stunts. His refusal - or inability - to register either elation or despair must have stemmed from a belief that triumph and tragedy inevitably follow each other, and that neither is worth getting excited about
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