Here we have a 25-30-minute black-and-white short film starring one of the biggest stars of the silent film era: Buster Keaton. And even if he was not even close to 30 years of age, this was already among his last efforts as a short film director writer and actor. The film was released in 1922, over 90 years ago. Buster ends up with a woman twice his age and three times his size and as if that wasn't already bad enough, she also has a handful of brothers who do not seem to approve at all of their possibly new brother-in-law. When they think he is fairly wealthy, they accept him into their family, but still won't let him really on the family photo. When they realize that it is not his money in fact, they decide to murder him first, then kill him. Oh my Buster, what kind of trouble have you gotten yourself into this time.
I like Stoneface Keaton, probably more than Chaplin and Lloyd, but the slapstick, fighting and comedy in here I found fairly forgettable. It's never really amusing or entertaining and this is already with the funny soundtrack that did not exist obviously in the original version. Keaton went on to make many more films afterward, but that cannot be said about the entire cast. One of the actors who played a brother never appeared in film again, another almost has a total of 300 credits under his back. The actress who plays Keaton's love interest has even more. And this film is interesting for including Academy Award winner Wallace Beery in an earlier effort from his career. But that's pretty much all there is. Not too memorable as a whole and not recommended.
I like Stoneface Keaton, probably more than Chaplin and Lloyd, but the slapstick, fighting and comedy in here I found fairly forgettable. It's never really amusing or entertaining and this is already with the funny soundtrack that did not exist obviously in the original version. Keaton went on to make many more films afterward, but that cannot be said about the entire cast. One of the actors who played a brother never appeared in film again, another almost has a total of 300 credits under his back. The actress who plays Keaton's love interest has even more. And this film is interesting for including Academy Award winner Wallace Beery in an earlier effort from his career. But that's pretty much all there is. Not too memorable as a whole and not recommended.