Buster Keaton
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- Genius of Buster Keaton, The (The Short Films Collection) (1917-1923)
- Dir. Buster Keaton
Feat. Buster Keaton
- A stunning, near–complete collection of 33 "two–reelers" from Buster Keaton's formative years before his run of successful feature…
- Arbuckle and Keaton - Volume 1 (1919)
- Dir. Fatty Arbuckle
Feat. Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle
- Five rare ‘two–reelers’ from the 1910s display two genius comedians in fine style: the mature routines of Roscoe…
- Buster Keaton Shorts (1920-1923)
- Feat. Buster Keaton
- A selection of early Buster Keaton short comedies, dating from just after his period as sidekick to Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and prior to his classic…
- Saphead, The (+ The High Sign, One Week) (1920)
- Dir. Herbert Blaché, Winchell Smith
Feat. Buster Keaton
- The film that launched Buster Keaton's career as a leading man features his debut starring role in a feature film as the simple–minded son of a…
- Our Hospitality / Sherlock Jr. (1923)
- Dir. Buster Keaton
Feat. Buster Keaton
- A pair of classic cinematic comedies from deadpan master Buster Keaton.
'Our Hospitality' – Keaton plays the youngest member of a Southern…
- Three Ages, The (1923)
- Dir. Buster Keaton
Feat. Buster Keaton, Wallace Beery, Margaret Leahy
- Dir. Keaton's debut effort is an original and often hilarious satire of cinema 'epic' cliche, already well–developed in 1923 courtesy of…
- Navigator, The (1924)
- Dir. Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp
Feat. Buster Keaton
- One of Buster Keaton's most evocative silent comedies, playing a naive youth who becomes marooned upon a gigantic yacht drifting out to…
- Seven Chances (1925)
- Dir. Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Feat. Buster Keaton
- Another of Buster Keaton's masterpieces is this romantic comedy in which he plays a man who is offered a seven million dollar fortune if he marries…
- General, The (1926)
- Dir. Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Feat. Buster Keaton
- Buster Keaton risks life and limb to pursue his beloved rail engine, hijacked by Union spies at the time of the U.S. Civil War. Hilarious…
- Battling Butler (1926)
- Dir. Buster Keaton
Feat. Buster Keaton
- Buster Keaton's seventh feature film is based on a Broadway play in which he plays a love–struck weakling who must masquerade as a boxer in…
- College (1927)
- Dir. James W. Horne
Feat. Buster Keaton
- Buster Keaton goes to college where he tries to win the girl of his dreams by proving himself in the sports arena. An ideal set up for 'Stoneface' to…
- Steamboat Bill Jr (1928)
- Dir. Charles Riesner
Feat. Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuire
- One of Buster Keaton's best films begins as sly farce, with his wimpish city–slicker meekly tussling with a thuggish steamboat–captain…
- Parlour, Bedroom & Bath (1931)
- Dir. Edward Sedgewick
Feat. Buster Keaton
- Buster Keaton is mistaken for a rich playboy in one of his rare 'talkies'. Not in the same league as his silent classics, but an interesting curio.
- Golden Age of Comedy (TV Series) (1949-1960)
- Feat. Groucho Marx, Humphrey Bogart, Bob Hope…
- Treasure trove of broadcast comedy classics from America's variety show golden age. Includes a bonus sixth disc with rare standup performances from…
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim…
- Faded screen vamp Gloria Swanson and screenwriter William Holden exploit each other mercilessly in this searing dissection of Hollywood decadence,…
- Limelight (1951)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Claire Bloom
- Charlie Chaplin's final film recreates in spirit his poverty–stricken London boyhood and escape into the vaudeville world.
With such…
- When Comedy Was King (1960)
- Dir. Various
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel…
- Second anthology of priceless silent comedy from complier Robert Youngson features excerpts from the likes of Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy,…
- Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
- Dir. William Asher
Feat. Paul Lynde, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello…
- Most successful and best known of the ‘Beach Party’ movies, though it shows signs of being fifth in a series by straying quite a way from the…
- Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, A (1966)
- Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Zero Mostel, Buster Keaton, Jack Gilford…
- Wild spoof–musical set in Roman times, is somewhat spotty but still generates plenty of comic gas courtesy of some old pros. Mostel plays a…
- Buster Keaton - A Hard Act to Follow (1987)
- Dir. Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
Feat. Buster Keaton
- Lovingly assembled by historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, this three–part biography on the great 'stone–faced' comedian compares a…