Title from sell sheet. Buster Keaton. Originally released as a motion picture in 1928. Full screen (1.33:1). Special features: New score by TImothy Brock; audio commentary from 2004 featuring Glenn Mitchell ; Spite marriage (1929), Buster Keaton's next feature for MGM ; Time travelers, a new documentary by Daniel Raim featuring interviews with Bengtson and film historian Marc Wanamaker ; So funny it hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM, a 2004 documentary by film historians Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird ; new interview with James L. Neibaur ; an essay by film critic Imogen Sara Smith.
Summary:
The final work over which he 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.
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