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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton

With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before (literally) kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the assembled drivers that he's buried a fortune in stolen ...

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) more movies like this

directed by Richard Lester
featuring Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Jack Gilford, Michael Crawford

Director Richard Lester uses the Burt Shevelove/Larry Gelbart/Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical hit as a launching pad for some of his wildest slapstick gaggery. Zero Mostel repeats his stage role as Pseudolus, the cunning Roman slave who'll do anything to win his freedom. The plot hinges on three Roman houses next door to each another. One is the ...

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In the Good Old Summertime

In the Good Old Summertime (1949) more movies like this

directed by Robert Z. Leonard
featuring Judy Garland, Van Johnson, Buster Keaton, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg

In the Good Old Summertime is a musical remake of the 1940 Ernst Lubitsch comedy The Shop Around the Corner, which in turn was based on a play by Miklos Laszlo. The locale has been changed from Hungary to Chicago, but the turn-of-century time frame and the plot remain the same. Van Johnson and Judy Garland play a couple of clerks in a sheet-music ...

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The General

The General (1927) more movies like this

directed by Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
featuring Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Fred Vroom

Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern railroad engineer who loves his train engine, The General, almost as much as he loves Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack). When the opening shots of the Civil War are fired at Fort Sumter, Johnny tries to enlist -- and he is deemed too useful as an engineer to be a soldier. All Johnny knows is that he's been ...

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Speak Easily

Speak Easily (1932) more movies like this

directed by Edward Sedgwick
featuring Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Selwyn, Thelma Todd, Hedda Hopper

Buster Keaton's best sound feature casts the Great Stone Face as Professor Post, a naïve college pedant who mistakenly believes he has inherited $750,000. Hoping to use this windfall to bring the Fine Arts to the waiting world, Post gets mixed up with a two-bit theatrical troupe, headed by Jimmy the piano player (Jimmy Durante). Enchanted by the ...

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Limelight

Limelight (1953) more movies like this

directed by Charles Chaplin
featuring Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Sydney Chaplin, Andre Eglevsky, Melissa Hayden, Buster Keaton

London, 1914. Calvero (Charles Chaplin), a once-great music hall comedian, weaves drunkenly home to his shabby flat. As he arrives home, he is suddenly sobered by a bad smell. It isn't his shoes, as he originally assumes, but the smell of gas, emanating from behind a locked door. Calvero smashes his way in, finding the unconscious Terry (Claire ...

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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) more movies like this

directed by William Asher
featuring Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Brian Donlevy, Harvey Lembeck, Beverly Adams, Buster Keaton

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini is considered to be the strangest of the "Beach Party" movies. Frankie (Frankie Avalon) is off in the navy, serving in the South Pacific, and nervous about all of the guys that will be hitting on Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) back at the beach. He makes a deal with an eccentric white witch doctor (Buster Keaton), who ...

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Battling Butler

Battling Butler (1926) more movies like this

directed by Buster Keaton
featuring Buster Keaton, Sally O'Neil, Snitz Edwards, Francis McDonald, Mary O'Brien

Battling Butler has to be the strangest of Buster Keaton's silent features. Based on the musical comedy of the same name, the film casts Keaton as wimpy millionaire Alfred Butler, who goes on a vacation in the mountains in the company of his faithful valet (Snitz Edwards). While communing with nature, Alfred falls in love with a beautiful young ...

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The Sidewalks of New York

The Sidewalks of New York (1931) more movies like this

directed by Jules White, Zion Myers
featuring Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Cliff Edwards, Norman Phillips, Frank Rowan

Buster Keaton once described his 1931 vehicle Sidewalks of New York as "God-awful"; it's hardly that bad, though admittedly it pales in comparison with his silent classics. Keaton plays Harmon, a wealthy young Park Avenue socialite who falls in love with Lower East Side denizen Margie (Anita Page). For her sake, he tries to reform a tough gang of ...

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Three Ages

Three Ages (1923) more movies like this

directed by Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
featuring Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Lillian Lawrence, Joe Roberts

Thirty years after its release, Buster Keaton admitted that his first feature film was essentially three two-reel comedies strung together. Perhaps this was a way for the comic filmmaker to play it safe; he had achieved success for his short films and if Three Ages wasn't going very well, its trio of storylines could have been chopped up into ...

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Free and Easy

Free and Easy (1930) more movies like this

directed by Edward Sedgwick
featuring Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, Robert Montgomery, Fred Niblo

Buster Keaton's talkie debut (discounting his non-speaking guest appearance in Hollywood Revue of 1929) was Free and Easy, an uneven but generally amusing comedy with a Hollywood setting. When pretty Elvira (Anita Page) of Gopher City, Kansas wins a beauty contest, her prize includes a trip to Tinseltown and a screen test at MGM. Appointing ...

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Our Hospitality (1923) more movies like this

directed by Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone
featuring Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Keaton

Buster Keaton's third starring feature (discounting 1920's The Saphead, which was not conceived with Keaton in mind), Our Hospitality is a boisterous satire of family feuds and Southern codes of honor. In 1831, Keaton leaves his home in New York to take charge of his family mansion down South. En route, Keaton befriends pretty Natalie Talmadge ...

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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) more movies like this

directed by Charles "Chuck" Riesner
featuring Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis, Tom McGuire, Marion Byron

Not the best of Buster Keaton's silents, Steamboat Bill, Jr. nonetheless contains some of Keaton's best and most spectacular sight gags. Keaton plays Willie Canfield, the namby-pamby son of rough-and-tumble steamboat captain "Steamboat Bill" Canfield (Ernest Torrence). When he's not trying to make a man out of his boy, the captain is carrying on a ...

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The Saphead (1920) more movies like this

directed by Herbert Blaché
featuring William H. Crane, Buster Keaton, Carol Holloway, Edward Connelly, Irving Cummings, Jack Livingston, Edward Jobson

The Saphead was based on the tried-and-true Winchell Smith stage comedy The New Henrietta, previously filmed in 1915 as The Lamb. Buster Keaton, at the time a popular 2-reel comedy attraction, makes his feature-film debut in the role of the addlepated son of Wall Street lion William H. Crane. In an effort to make something worthwhile of his ...

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Pajama Party (1964) more movies like this

directed by Don Weis
featuring Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Elsa Lanchester, Jody McCrea, Buster Keaton, Harvey Lembeck, Jesse White

Out of the beaches and into the boudoirs go Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and the rest of the gang in Pajama Party. Actually, the whole megillah is as innocent as a newborn babe, but there's plenty of smirking and snickering during a wild 'n' wacky girl's slumber party. Frankie Avalon has only a cameo, relinquishing center stage to Tommy Kirk, ...

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The Navigator (1924) more movies like this

directed by Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp
featuring Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Fred Vroom

At the request of his star Buster Keaton, producer Joseph M. Schenck purchased an obsolete ocean liner for $20,000. Keaton wanted to use the boat as a "prop" in his upcoming feature comedy, but went into production with nary a plot idea in his head. Eventually, Buster and his chief gagman Clyde Bruckman came up with a story involving two wealthy, ...

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Sherlock Jr. (1924) more movies like this

directed by Buster Keaton
featuring Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane, Jane Connelly, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly

The enduring power of this silent-era comedy classic from director/star Buster Keaton can be ascertained simply by recognizing how often its central concept has been cribbed, most notably by writer/director Woody Allen for The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). Keaton is a cinema projectionist who dreams of being a famous detective, like Sherlock Holmes ...

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Go West (1925) more movies like this

directed by Buster Keaton
featuring Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdell, Kathleen Myers

With this delightful film, Buster Keaton rivals Charlie Chaplin for comic poetry and pathos. Keaton's character, known only as Friendless, is a Midwestern boy who is down on his luck. After an abortive attempt to get by in the city, he follows Horace Greeley's advice to "Go West, young man!" As a result, Friendless winds up on a cattle ranch and ...

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Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931) more movies like this

directed by Edward Sedgwick
featuring Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny, Dorothy Christy, Cliff Edwards

Based on the stage comedy by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan (previously filmed in 1920), Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a curious mixture of all that was good and everything that was bad in Buster Keaton's talkie features. Keaton plays Reginald Irving, a dimwitted bill-poster who finds himself the pawn in a scheme cooked up by wealthy Jeffrey Haywood ...

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The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940) more movies like this

directed by Edward F. Cline
featuring Anita Louise, Alan Mowbray, Buster Keaton, Joyce Compton, Richard Cromwell

Like Prohibition, Franklin-Blank Productions' The Villain Still Pursued Her is best regarded as a "noble experiment". Using the hoary old stage melodrama The Drunkard: or, the Fallen Saved as its inspiration, the film is a contemptous send-up of all such Victorian mellers, its "serious" moments deliberately and broadly played for laughs. The tone ...

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College (1927) more movies like this

directed by James W. Horne
featuring Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley, Harold Goodwin, Buddy Mason, Grant Withers

The silent comedy feature College stars Buster Keaton as a scholarly young man who doesn't know beans about sports. When he arrives in college, Buster finds that all the Big Men on Campus are jocks. To impress pretty coed Anne Cornwall, Buster tries and fails to join all the school teams. Even when he attempts to take a job at the campus soda ...

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Boom in the Moon (1946) more movies like this

directed by Jaime Salvador
featuring Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton plays a 20th-century Bluebeard as he is convinced to take a rocket to the moon in this comedy. Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide

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