The Misadventures of Buster Keaton
Feature film fashioned from parts of Keaton's short-lived TV series "The Buster Keaton Show."
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A real curiosity in the Buster Keaton canon: “The Misadventures of Buster Keaton” was a theatrical film cobbled together from episodes of “Life with Buster Keaton,” a very-early ‘50s US TV program. In it, he portrayed the owner of a sporting goods store who moonlighted as a community theater’s “managing director, leading man and star.” “Misadventures” was released apparently only in Europe, as a means to capitalize on Keaton’s continuing popularity there. Many of the gags in the show were lifted wholesale from other Keaton movies – such as the “falling wall” stunt from “Steamboat Bill Jr.”
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The Misadventures of Buster Keaton (1950) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. No signup, no payment and no advertising interrupts playback. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Arthur Hilton
- Starring
- Buster Keaton, Harold Goodwin, Eleanor Keaton, Iris Adrian, Hank Mann, Harvey Perry, Ben Welden, Dick Wessel
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