The Buster Keaton Show (1950)
3.8 of 5 from 45 ratings
4h 40min
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- Synopsis:
By the late 1940s, it seemed Buster Keaton's career had ended. With the exception of increasingly rare daywork, he'd barely worked in almost 5 years, other than a four week part in a famous Paris based circus in 1947 and prior to that, touring in a summer theater production of 'The Gorilla' in 1941. But in 1949, comedian Ed Wynn had a variety show on the relatively new broadcast format of television and he invited Keaton to appear on his CBS show, which was televised live only on the West Coast and then recorded on kinescope, then film prints were made and distributed to other parts of the country.(there was no transcontinental broadcast until September, 1951). 'So it was one of the thrills of my life when I got a chance in December of 1949 to do my own weekly TV show on KHJ (KTTV), the 'Los Angeles Times' broadcasting station. By then I had almost given up hope of getting another real chance as an actor.' Buster Keaton Of the 13 episodes produced and aired from 'The Buster Keaton Show', only these 9 episodes exist today and two of them are especially unique: The one from 2/2/50 has never been viewed since its original air date and the episode from 2/23/50 was never before available on any other format. The series initially received high ratings on the West Coast but the lack of a studio audience response and its laughter (canned laughter didn't exist) to Keaton's brilliant physical humor, doomed the series. - Actors:
- Buster Keaton, Harvey Parry, Marcia Mae Jones, Jack Reitzen, Peter Leeds, Harold Goodwin, Ray Erlenborn, Edwin Reimers, Donna Gibson, Margaret Dumont, Joe Devlin, Charles Williams, Ralph Peters, Richard Monahan, Edward Colebrook, Alan Reed, Dick Elliott, Ben Welden, Leon Belasco, Dorothy Ford
- Directors:
- Arthur Hilton, Philippe De Lacy, Edward F. Cline
- Producers:
- Carl K. Hittleman, Clyde Bruckman, Jay Sommers
- Writers:
- Clyde Bruckman, Harold Goodwin, Carl K. Hittleman, Ben Perry, Jay Sommers, Elwood Ullman
- Studio:
- Liberation Hall
- Genres:
- TV Classics, TV Comedies
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- Not released
- Run Time:
- 332 minutes
- Languages:
- English
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Three Comedians Close Up (CBC-TV)
- This Is Your Life' (TV episode with Buster Keaton)
- Circus Time
- Policemen' (1922)
- The Goat (1921)
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