USA,
1921, 20 min
Shown in 1994
CREDITS
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Buster Keaton
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COMMENTS
Shown with Safety Last as program of silent film classics from two great stars of cinema’s early glory and glamour, with live organ accompaniment by Dennis James on the Castro’s Mighty Wurlitzer.
Keaton’s 1921 two-reeler The Goat—one of his most meticulously constructed, endlessly hilarious comedies—starts off the evening. Keaton, as critic James Agee observes, “was the most deeply ‘silent’ of the silent comedians,” possessed of “a face as still and sad as a daguerreotype”—and the nimble force behind “some of the most preposterously ingenious and visually satisfying physical comedy ever invented.”
—Beth Crichlow
FACTOID #68
Stanley Mosk, who later became a California state Supreme Court Justice, served as the general chairman at the 1967 Festival.
