Buster Keaton
1) Limelight
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1914 London, the film stars Chaplin as an aging music hall comic who's convinced he can no longer move people to laughter. But he gets a final opportunity to shine when he saves a young, equally desperate ballet dancer from suicide, then guides her to triumph on the stage.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"The General: Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern train engineer who has his eyes set on the lovely Anabelle Lee (Marion Mack). As war breaks out between the North and the South, Johnny enlists to win Anabelle's heart, and he is made engineer of his own locomotive, The General. When Union spies steal his train and put the life of Annabelle in danger, Johnny takes matters into his own hands. Steamboat Bill Jr.: Set on the banks of the Mississippi...
5) Keaton plus
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Highlights include home movie footage of Keaton in Paris and on the set, scenes from a never-completed Cinemascope musical, excerpts from the rare TV series "Life with Buster Keaton", his first dramatic role, two 1930s shorts, commercials, excerpts from his appearance TV and a newly-restored 1921 short. Film historian John Bengtson has prepared an interactive tour of locations where Keaton's films were shot. An extensive photo gallery reveals family...
7) The general
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
[Fullscreen edition].
Language
English
Description
Rejected by the Confederate army, and taken for a coward by his beloved, young Johnny Gray is given a chance to redeem himself when he wages a one-man war against Yankee spies who have stolen his locomotive.
8) Li'l Abner
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Li'l Abner is the prize quarry in the annual Sadie Hawkins day race, and Marryin' Sam has his work cut out for him when Daisy May sets out in pursuit.
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Fullscreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A hilarious tribute to the era of silent slapstick comedy and all the uproarious comedians who built the comedy genre. Includes The Golden Age of Comedy and When Comedy Was King, and features Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Will Rogers, and more.
13) Limelight
Series
Criterion collection volume 756
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A masterful drama about the twilight of a former vaudeville star is among the writer/director₂s most touching films. Calvero, a once beloved musical-comedy performer, now a washed-up alcoholic who lives in a small London flat. A glimmer of hope arrives when he meets a beautiful but melancholy ballerina who lives downstairs.
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Digitally remastered versions.
Language
English
Description
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928): Follows the adventures of a spoiled young man forced by his father to learn the ropes of riverboating. Convict 13 (1920): Keaton struggles for survival inside prison walls. Daydreams (1922): Keaton tries to find his niche by trying out various professions.
15) Go West
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
[Go West] A hapless young man, heeding the expansionist call of Horace Greeley, idealistically hops a freight train to meet his destiny. [The scarecrow] Follows the unhealthy competition between roommates vying for the attentions of a young lady. [The paleface] Buster helps a Native American tribe defend their land from greedy developers.
17) Battling Butler
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
[Battling Butler] Alfred Butler, a fragile young man whose father sends him into the country where he hopes masculinity will blossom, is there mistaken for "Battling" Butler, a renowned prizefighter. Alfred carries on the ruse to impress a young lady, but his charade is soon complicated by the arrival of a true contender. [The haunted house] Buster takes refuge in a mansion rigged with a series of frightening booby traps. [The frozen North] Keaton...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
[The general] A locomotive is beloved by its engineer, who sets out to win the Civil War single handedly. [The playhouse] A comedy in which Keaton plays a stage manager, an actor, a monkey and other parts. [Cops] A comedy of errors in which Buster Keaton attempts to win his sweetheart's hand in marriage by becoming a successful businessman. His exploits climax in a chase with an entire police precinct.
19) The cameraman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1033
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
None
Description
The final work over which Buster Keaton maintained creative control, this clever farce is the culmination of an extraordinary, decade-long run that produced some of the most innovative and enduring comedies of all time. Keaton plays a hapless newsreel cameraman desperate to impress both his new employer and his winsome office crush as he zigzags up and down Manhattan hustling for a scoop.
20) The navigator
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
[The navigator] Keaton stars as Rollo Treadway, an inexperienced lad of extraordinary wealth, and surprisingly little common sense, who finds himself adrift on an immense 500 ft. yacht. [The boat] A slapstick comedy about the adventures of a land-lubber and his family in their homemade sailboat. [The love nest] Buster sets out to sea, forlorn about a lost love.