The Cameraman (1928)
After becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels, Buster trades in his tintype operation for a movie camera and sets out to impress the girl (and MGM) with his work.
Cast and Information
Directed By: Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick
Written By: Clyde Bruckman, Joseph Farnham
Starring: Buster Keaton, Harold Goodwin, Marceline Day, Sidney Bracey, Harry Gribbon
Genres: Romance, Comedy, Drama, Family/Kids
Country: USA
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A slow start, but soon gets into gear quite nicely. Watching Keaton try to change clothes with another dude in a small changing room is one of the funniest gags he's ever done, and the romantic maneuvering and twist at the climax is golden.
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Buster Keaton is great in the lead role of this film. The script has several fun set ups and some surprises. Overall I would recommend this film.
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Hapless Buster learns to use a movie camera while also learning a little about love. While there are a few more pratfalls and a few less stunts than in his earlier works, the humorous plot is generally solid, even with the addition of a machine-gunner monkey.
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Marvelous and wonderful movie. I viewed this last year and forgot to rate it for some reason. So glad I bought it on Criterion.
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A pretty sweet romantic comedy with some fairly incredible stunt work from Keaton. Not among his best work, but very solid.
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Keaton tries to impress his new flame by becoming a cameraman. This has the best romance story of all Keatons features (well best human one, it still can't beat Keaton and Brown Eyes) with the girl being interested in him cause of his sweet nature and not for his efforts to impress her. The big Tong war, while being low on funny stunts and gags, is impressively staged nonetheless. The different plot strings come together very well in the end.
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You can't help but admire Keaton's enthusiasm. Everything he does is innovative, hilarious and full of energy.
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Circumstances conspired to give Keaton's first feature directly under MGM a bit more freedom than he'd generally have again. The result is closer in scale and conception to his much earlier material, and all the more endearing for it, in a picture packed with some of his best small-scale comic business in a long time, but not without a few of those hectic crowd moments his shorts used to be so big on. Marcelline Day also makes for a particularly supportive and sincere love interest.
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It's fun, it's funny, it's high-paced and impressively made in multiple regards. The effects are exceptional for the time, the stunts are unsurprisingly amazing, and the editing is smart and effective. I didn't find The Cameraman to be particularly memorable or charming, but maybe that's the studio putting its fingerprints on the whole thing. Oh, and the baboon is acting his ass off!
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Nunca pensei que um dia assitiria um filme com o Buster Keaton como ator e ele não seria o melhor em cena, estou falando daquele macaco, aquele macaco é genial. Só porque chegou hoje o meu box com a obra completa muda do Buster Keaton do Obras Primas do Cinema em DVD.
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A hapless tintype photographer (Buster Keaton) tries to woo an MGM secretary (Marceline Day) by becoming a newsreel cameraman, with predictably comedic results. While not quite on a par with his finest work - it bogs down a bit during some irrelevant sequences - it rallies for a mostly superb final act, complete with a monkey ex machina.
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