Battling Butler (DVD) / a Kino International release ; [presented by] Joseph M. Schenck ; a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production ; directed by Buster Keaton ; adapted from the stage ... by Paul Gerard Smith [and others].
Publisher:
Kino on Video,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as motion pictures, 1921-1926. "Digitally mastered from archive prints. Featuring an original musical score."--Container. Produced for video by David Shepard, Film Preservation Associates. Battling Butler based on the play by Stanley Brightman and Austin Melford. Buster Keaton, Sally O'Neil, Walter James, Bud Fine, Francis McDonald, Mary O'Brien, Tom Wilson, Eddie Borden, Snitz Edwards, Virginia Fox, Bonnie Hill.
Contents:
Battling Butler (71 min. : b & w) -- The haunted house (20 min. : color tinted) / written and directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline ; featuring Virginia Fox -- The frozen north (17 min. : b & w) / written and directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline ; featuring Bonnie Hill.
Summary:
Battling Butler (1926): A fragile young man is sent into the country by his father in hopes that his masculinity will blossom. There he is mistaken for a renowned prizefighter ; The haunted house (1921): Buster takes refuge in a mansion rigged with a series of frightening booby traps ; The frozen north (1922): A Yukon metropolis is the snowbound setting for this parody of movie legends William S. Hart and Erich von Stroheim.
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