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Three Ages, The
USA 1923, 65 minutes
Dir. Buster Keaton
Rating: [G]
Genres: Comedy / Silent Cinema, Spoof
Topics: Satire.
Feat. Buster Keaton, Wallace Beery, Margaret Leahy
Aroview: Dir. Keaton's debut effort is an original and often hilarious satire of cinema 'epic' cliche, already well-developed in 1923 courtesy of Griffith features such as INTOLERANCE.
Dividing into three parts - set in the Stone Age, Ancient Rome and presentday respectively - this delightfully mixes up deadpan slapstick with surreal incongruities (Alaskan huskies in a Roman chariot race anyone?) A one of kind effort that's unjustly underrated.
Member Reviews
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5 stars (Exceptional) Best viewed in the dark, Keaton's film is packed with great gags, not dated over 93 years. Only the technology has changed. His humour is parody, rather than the usual slapstick. Arovideo should buy the new complete DVD set of this comic genius. ~Sandy
DVD Features
A wide range of unusually lateral extra materials, as is typical for these Madman Keaton re-releases, including excerpts from the target of it's satire, Griffith's Intolerance, a caveman cartoon 'Why They Love Cavemen', Keaton short THE TRIUMPH OF LESTER SNAPWELL and an introduction to the film.
- extra stuff
- aspect ratio: 4:3
Close Relatives
- Seven Chances (1925)
- Intolerance (1916)
- Our Hospitality / Sherlock Jr. (1923)
- Buster Keaton Boxset (1923)
- History of the World, Pt.1 (1981)
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