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Spite Marriage (1929)

Director: Edward Sedgwick

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From Time Out Film Guide

Keaton's last silent feature takes the classic Keaton form: an incompetent discovers a growing sense of confidence and physical ingenuity, overcomes the villains, and wins the girl. Part of the plot harks back to The Navigator, but three of the sequences (a play ruined by Buster's gaucheness, getting a drunk bride to bed, and an extraordinary shipboard fight) put the film up in Division One, crowning a decade of unparalleled creativity which was then stifled by studio inflexibility.

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Cast & crew

Director: Edward Sedgwick

Producer: Lawrence Weingarten

Cast: Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle, Leila Hyams, Will Bechtel, Hank Mann full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 9 mins


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