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Laserdisc Title: "COLLEGE - BUSTER KEATON (1927)"
Edition: Silent Classics (Single Disc)
Directed By: Buster Keaton, James W. Horne
Starring: Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley, Harold Goodwin, Grant Withers, Snitz Edwards, Florence Turner
Production / Year: 1927, Renewed 1972 Killiam Shows, Inc
Running Time: 66 Minutes / Black & White w/TINTS
Audio Format: Digitally Processed, CX Encoded
Video Format: NTSC, CLV (Extended Play)
Miscellaneous Features: Not RatedManufactured /
Distributed By: Republic Pictures Home Video
Catalog / Spine Number: LV20724

Cosmetic Condition:
Disc (s): Excellent - Very few very light to very minor hairline surface swirls or very light fingerprint marks, if any
Jacket: Very Good - Normal shelf wear, creases, scuffs, small punch-out hole lower RHS of jacket, worn-out corners or edges and a small split middle of bottom spine

Synopsis:
Buster Keaton goes back to school and stages a hilarious send-up of university life in "College" (1927, 66 min.). Keaton stars as Ronald, an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in pursuit of higher learning, but finds him instead embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary (Ann Cornwall). COLLEGE came during the same period in Buster Keaton's career as did his most famous feature, THE GENERAL. Yet the difference couldn't be more startling. While THE GENERAL reveled in thrills, spills, chases, daring rescues, and fun sight gags, COLLEGE is more a random collection of physical comedy jokes that achieve varying degrees of success. Yes, there's some funny material, but I can't say that this film matches up with Keaton at his best. The basic story is that Keaton is a High School graduate (yeah, everyone looks about twice as old as the characters they're playing) who ridicules athletics during his valedictorian speech. But desperate to win back the heart of his shallow girlfriend, he must excel at some sporting event. He goes with her to college (along with the aged High School athlete) determined to prove his worth. Ronald, the klutzy high-school brain played by Buster Keaton in College, is an inspired variation on the insulated millionaire playboys of earlier films. This bookish mama's boy who couldn't throw a fit, let alone a football, vows to become a college athlete to win the heart of the campus sweetheart. Of course in this path lies disaster, and his follies in track and field (the flyweight tries to throw the hammer and winds up flinging himself) only increase when he's made coxswain of the rowing team. Keaton's mix of energetic earnestness and flailing incompetence make his athletic tryout the film highlight, but in classic Keaton fashion Mr. Two Left Feet becomes the world's greatest athlete to save his sweetie from a bullying muscle-bound brute, mastering every event he so hilariously botched earlier in a decathlon dash to the rescue.This episodic comedy is more like his early shorts than his best features, lacking the narrative backbone that supports such masterpieces as The General and Steamboat Bill, Jr., but it's full of inspired physical comedy and Keaton's unique brand of gymnastic genius.

THIS IS NOT A DVD!!! THIS IS A 12" LASERDISC AND WILL NOT PLAY IN A DVD PLAYER

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