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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Sidney Sheldon (writer)
Robert Smith (writer)
Release Date:
May 1957 (USA) more
Tagline:
It's a blues - BUSTER!
User Comments:
Donald O'Connor is good. The movie isn't. more (4 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Donald O'Connor | ... | Buster Keaton |
 | Ann Blyth | ... | Gloria Brent |
 | Rhonda Fleming | ... | Peggy Courtney |
 | Peter Lorre | ... | Kurt Bergner |
| Larry Keating | ... | Larry Winters |
| Jackie Coogan | ... | Elmer Case |
 | Richard Anderson | ... | Tom McAffee |
| Dave Willock | ... | Joe Keaton |
| Claire Carleton | ... | Myra Keaton |
| Larry White | ... | Buster, age 7 |
| Dan Seymour | ... | Indian Chief |
| Michael Ross | ... | Assistant Chief |
| Nan Martin | ... | Edna |
| Robert Christopher | ... | Nick |
| Richard Aherne | ... | Franklin |
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91 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Despite what the film portrays, neither Keaton nor his family ever performed in a circus, his father died when Keaton was an adult and his father did not die while performing. One day, the real Buster Keaton visited the set while they were filming a circus scene and Keaton told all of this to a surprised Donald O'Connor. more
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Anachronisms: Keaton's wife, a stylish studio employee, continues to wear WWI-era fashions well into the late Twenties-early Thirties. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "What's My Line?: (1957-09-01)" (1957) more
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Donald O'Connor does an amazing job recreating Buster Keaton's style and routines in this otherwise dreadful script, credited to Sidney Sheldon and Robert Smith. Buster was arguably a finer comedian than Chaplin, but fell into alcoholism for a number of reasons. This script has so little to do with his life it should never have been titled as it was. Read a real biography, and watch some of Buster's many wonderful movies, including his last, "The Railrodder". I remember watching "Waterworld (1995)", and thinking how poorly it compared to "Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)", not least on value for the money expended on making it. And don't watch another movie until you have seen "The General (1927)". His movies are his biography, not this rotten script.