Saturday, 14 November 2026

Sherlock, Jr. (1924 Buster Keaton)

The one where Buster falls asleep in the cinema projection room and ends up on screen - perhaps an influence on The Purple Rose of Cairo.

Features some incredibly inventive stiff, like when he dives through a window and some old woman's clothes and stands up and is the old woman who calmly walks away from the pursuing gangsters. Of the pool scene where he hits every ball but the explosive ball 13. But there's also the moment he on the handlebars of a riderless motorbike and he crosses the path of an oncoming train that is breathtaking and no doub t highly dangerous.

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