Rent Buster Keaton: Three Ages (1923)
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1h 10min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- The first feature that Buster Keaton wrote, directed, and starred in, 'Three Ages' spoofs D.W. Griffith's historical epic 'Intolerance'. Like that film, 'Three Ages' follows multiple narratives across different historical eras, which Keaton packs to the brim with incredible stunts and hilarious visual gags. Across three eras - the Stone Age, Ancient Rome, and 'modern times' - Keaton competes for the love of a woman (Margaret Leahy) whilst having to defend himself from a nasty bully (Wallace Beery).
- Actors:
- Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Joe Roberts, Lillian Lawrence, Kewpie Morgan, Lionel Belmore, George Davis, Louise Emmons, Blanche Payson
- Directors:
- Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
- Producers:
- Buster Keaton, Joseph M. Schenck
- Writers:
- Clyde Bruckman, Joseph A. Mitchell, Jean C. Havez, Buster Keaton
- Aka:
- Three Ages
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy
- Collections:
- inema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 2
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 21/08/2023
- Run Time:
- 70 minutes
- Languages:
- English Commentary LPCM Stereo, English LPCM Stereo, Silent
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Musical score by Rodney Sauer
- Reconstructed original intertitles
- Brand new audio commentary by film historian and writer David Kalat
- This Side of the Impossible - new video essay by David Cairns
- Under the Flat Hat - new video essay by Fiona Watson
- The Six Ages of Comedy - new featurette based on an essay by Buster Keaton
- Lavender Talking Keaton - new interview with actor Ian Lavender
- Man's Genesis - excerpt from the 1912 short by D.W. Griffith that is parodied in 'Three Ages'
- Video essay on the film's locations by John Bengtson
- Archival Alka Seltzer commercial
- Archival audio recordings of Keaton: Buster Keaton on Shell Chateau (1936), Buster Keaton talks to Art Finley on KSFO 560 (1960), and an excerpt from a French interview with Keaton (1960)
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