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College (1927)
Director: James W Horne
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From Time Out Film Guide
Minor Keaton but major almost any other comedian, and notably better than Harold Lloyd's The Freshman, whose plot it borrows, with bookworm Buster trying to prove himself a jock to win the girl. There is a marvellous sequence in which he apes - perfectly but disastrously - the tricks of a veteran soda-jerk; an even better one in which he attempts a decathlon of sporting events, but knocks down every single hurdle with metronomic precision, is thrown by the hammer instead of the other way round, etc. Rarely was Keaton's grace and athletic skill demonstrated so clearly, even if he (understandably) had to get a double to perform the great pole vault through a window to rescue the heroine from assault by her jock admirer.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: James W Horne
Producer: Joseph M Schenck
Cast: Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Harold Goodwin, Snitz Edwards, Florence Turner, Grant Withers full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 6 mins
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