(Buster
Keaton/1920/USA)
These 20
minutes of slapstick, farce and chase are a well spring for so much
that comes after in cinema - Laurel and Hardy, The Odd Couple, Wallace
and Gromit to name a few obvious ones. With a simple premise of two
chaps living together in a house of contraptions and time saving
inventions who fall for the same girl, the daughter of a farmer, and
the battle for her heart that ensues, it packs a steady flow of
punches into its short run time and keeps you laughing right to the
very end. It’s wonderfully simple and funny after all these years.
(5/5)
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