Seven chances [videorecording] / Joseph M. Schenck presents a Metro-Goldwyn production ; Buster Keaton Productions ; screen version by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez & Joseph Mitchell ; directed by Buster Keaton.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Ultimate ed., 2011 remastered ed.
Publisher:
Kino LorberInc.,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sd., col. tint and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Brideless groom. How a French nobleman got a wife through the New York Herald personal columns.
Notes:
Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards. "Kino Classics from Kino Lorber." Adapted from David Belasco's comedy by Roi Cooper Megrue. "Mastered from 33mm materials preserved by the Library of Congress"--Container. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1925. Special features include optional audio commentary and conversation by film historians Ken Gordon and Bruce Lawton (2.0 stereo.); tour of filming locations by John Bengtson, author of Silent echoes; about the technicolor sequence by film historian Eric Grayson; gallery of production stills; and the bonus 1947 film A brideless groom (17 min.) and the 1904 Edison short film How a French nobleman got a wife through the New York Herald personal columns. Kino Lorber, Inc.: K842.
Summary:
"[T]he story of an eligible young bachelor who must marry by 7:00 p.m. in order to receive a $7 million inheritance. After bungling a proposal to his longtime sweetheart ... , Jimmie ... embarks on a desperate quest for a bride. He experiences a hilarous series of rejections, until a newspaper announcement of Jimmie's predicament provides him with more fianceĢes than he can handle"--Container.
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