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Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Genre:
Comedy / Short / Family / Romance / Fantasy (more)
Plot Summary: Buster and Ward are rivals for Kathryn. Ward steals her father's watch and Buster is blamed. Back at...
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User Comments:
Fantastic filmmaking from one of the world's greatest
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User Rating:
 
8.4/10 (2,387 votes)
Runtime:
44 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Sound Mix:
Silent
Certification:
USA:Unrated
Trivia:
Some filmographies credit 'Roscoe Arbuckle' as co-director of this film. The confusion comes from the fact that Keaton did originally hope to have Arbuckle work as his co-director on the film, but ultimately Arbuckle was still too depressed over the scandal that had nearly ended his career three years earlier, and had become difficult to work with, so Keaton went ahead as the sole director of the film. The claim that Arbuckle was a co-director on the film was substantiated by Minta Durfee, however, her claims lose credibility when she also stated that Arbuckle was the sole screenwriter of the film. The script was definitely written by Joseph A. Mitchell, Jean C. Havez,and Clyde Bruckman-Keaton's usual team of gagmen from this time. Historians agree there is no credibility to the claim that Arbuckle ever directed a so much as a frame of the movie.
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Goofs:
Miscellaneous: As Buster falls asleep, the film begins unspooling onto the floor. When Buster wakes up, if nobody fixed it, there should be a large pile of film on the floor. And if someone fixed it, why didn't they wake him up?
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Awards:
1 win
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User Comments:
3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Fantastic filmmaking from one of the world's greatest, 20 January 1999
Author:
pooch-8 from Fargo, North Dakota
Sherlock, Jr. arguably exceeds The General as Buster Keaton's greatest
achievement -- it is certainly more magical in its use of extraordinary
special effects and unconventionally humorous situations. Movies about
movies are a dime a dozen, but rather difficult to do well. Keaton's
brilliant structuring of the story -- a fantastic treat for audiences when
his pathetic projectionist becomes the genius detective through a literal
entering of the movie screen -- has been imitated dozens of times, but I
always come back to this unsurpassable rendering. Watching Keaton play the
scene where he studies how to go about kissing his best girl by peeking at a
movie version of the same event always reduces me to simultaneous jags of
tears and laughter.
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