Cast: Buster Keaton

Direction James W. Horne

Cast Buster Keaton · Anne Cornwall · Harold Goodwin · Snitz Edwards

Direction Alan Schneider

Cast Buster Keaton · Nell Harrison · James Karen · Susan Reed

Plot A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Roberts · Edward F. Cline

Plot The opening scene, a dream sequence prior to the vaudeville routines which follow, is what makes this film famous. In it Keaton plays everyone in a theatre simultaneously (through multiple...

Direction Jean-Baptiste Péretié

Cast Robinson Stévenin · Buster Keaton

Plot How, in the space of a few years, did Buster Keaton, the uncontested genius of silent films, go from the status of being a widely-worshipped star to an alcoholic and...

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Buster Keaton · Mel Brooks · Dick Cavett · James Curtis

Plot "The Great Buster" celebrates the life and career of one of Hollywood’s most prolific and influential filmmakers, Buster Keaton. Stunning restorations of archival works bring Keaton’s magic to life on...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Roberts

Plot Evil oil barons have given the Indians one day to vacate their land. The Indian chief tells his braves to kill the first white man they see. Buster shows up...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline · Sybil Seely

Plot Buster's handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Roberts · Edward F. Cline

Plot Buster is a bank clerk. Overturned glue gets everything, mostly the money, stuck to everything else. When robbers show up he can't "stick 'em up" because his hands are stuck...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Sybil Seely · Joe Roberts · Edward F. Cline

Plot Buster is playing golf with Sybil when he gets knocked out. An escaped prisoner changes clothes with him. Buster goes to prison and learns that he is to be hanged....

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters

Plot After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Renée Adorée · Edward F. Cline · Joe Keaton

Plot Buster goes away to the city to prove to his girl's father he can succeed. He writes her of his various jobs which she glorifies in her imagination. She sees...

Direction Buster Keaton · Malcolm St. Clair

Cast Buster Keaton · Joe Roberts · Virginia Fox

Plot Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Roberts · Bull Montana

Plot Out of work, Buster tries various ways to commit suicide. At last he tries "poison" from a bottle containing booze. The president of a sporting club speaks of the need...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Joe Roberts · Virginia Fox

Plot Buster bids goodbye to Virginia and all women, sailing away in his "Cupid." Later, without food or water, he is taken on board "The Love Nest" which has a very...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Monte Collins · Wheezer Dell · Harry Madison

Plot When a large Irish woman falsely accuses Buster of breaking a window he is hauled before a Polish judge who speaks no English and assumes they are there to be...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Phyllis Haver · Babe London

Plot Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon which lands Buster in the wilderness proves useful later on...

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Zero Mostel · Phil Silvers · Buster Keaton · Michael Crawford

Plot Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish, purchase his freedom. When his master and mistress leave for the day he finds out that the young...

Direction Edward Sedgwick · Buster Keaton

Cast Buster Keaton · Dorothy Sebastian · Edward Earle · Leila Hyams

Plot Elmer is a dry cleaner. He is madly in love with stage star Trilby Drew; for each of her 35 performances, he dons someone else's tuxedo and races to the...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Joe Roberts · Sybil Seely · Bonnie Hill

Plot This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing...

Direction Robert Youngson

Cast Clark Gable · Greta Garbo · Jean Harlow · Cary Grant

Plot A compilation of scenes from classic MGM comedies from the silent era up to 1948's "A Southern Yankee." Among the films showcased are "The Thin Man," "A Night at the...