Buster Keaton Sherlock Jr. Sherlock Jr. Cohen Media Group Directed by Buster Keaton • 1924 • United States Starring Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton Reality and movie fantasy merge to brilliantly surreal effect in one of Buster Keaton's most formally innovative features—a whirlwind of astonishing optical tricks and meta-cinematic invention Mitchell.It features Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, and Ward Crane.
It was filled with the comedian's trademark physical gags, intricately-choreographed and acrobatic vaudeville stunts, visually-witty humor and amazing special effects (an. It tells one story, of a young man (Buster) trying to woo a love interest (Kathryn McGuire) until he is framed for theft by a rich rival suitor (Ward Crane), for about 18 minutes, at which point it transitions to a long, elaborate dream sequence where the boy imagines himself as a great (albeit unorthodox) detective having an increasingly outlandish.
With Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly 1924 Credits Directed by: Buster Keaton and Roscoe ArbuckleRelease Date: April 21, 1924Length: 5 Reels (4065 feet) StarringBuster Keaton: Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.Kathryn McGuire: The GirlJoe Keaton: The Girl's Father / Man on Film ScreenWard Crane: The Local Sheik / The VillainErwin Connelly: The Hired Man / The ButlerJane Connelly: The Mother (uncredited)Ford […] For the scene where Sherlock Jr., escaping some gangsters, leaps headfirst through the body of his assistant, Gillette (who is disguised as an old lady selling neckties), and disappears, Buster Keaton used an old magician's trick
SHERLOCK JR. (1924) BUSTER KEATON (DIR) 001 Stock Photo Alamy. (1924) is stone-faced director/producer Buster Keaton's marvelously inventive, short silent film era, comic fantasy - his third and shortest feature film (after a series of two-reel shorts in the early 1920s) For the scene where Sherlock Jr., escaping some gangsters, leaps headfirst through the body of his assistant, Gillette (who is disguised as an old lady selling neckties), and disappears, Buster Keaton used an old magician's trick
BUSTER KEATON in SHERLOCK, JR. (1924), directed by BUSTER KEATON and ROSCOE "FATTY" ARBUCKLE. was generally well-received and did well at the box office, although it didn't perform as. starts with a proverb: "Don't try to do two things at once and expect to do justice to both." The projectionist/Sherlock Jr