Buster Keaton is great as always and He and Dorothy Sebastian were magnificient in the scene where she is drunk and he puts her to bed. Great acting. It is a shame it couldn't have been a talkie like he wanted but it was still great. Definitely worth watching when you get a chance. TCM shows it every once in a while.
shareI was surprised by the overall quality. It wasn't as good as anything Buster did pre-MGM, but they'd not managed to totally hamstring him yet. I got very caught up in it.
shareI didn't like Spite Marriage. But it wasn't anywhere near as bad as Free and Easy. That one was terrible.
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I like it, too. Dorothy Sebastian was amazing; she gets knocked around almost as much as Buster.
last 2 dvds: La Habanera (1937) & Accattone (1961)
I actually liked this film very much! Before watching I knew it's made with MGM and expected something not so good, since I read everywhere that MGM ruined Keaton... But it had many great gags and stunts, Dorothy Sebastian was great (her jealousy faces at the restaurant!) and Keaton's acting was a pleasure to watch as always. I laughed very much at his "hate expression" he made every time he saw the villain character in the theatre play, I just didn't expect that from him :)
shareI saw "Spite Marriage" last night and really liked it. Someone mentioned that Ms. Sebastian did almost as much physical comedy as Mr. Keaton, and it's true. It's a great pairing both professionally, and as I understand it, personally too. The film's lot of fun; too bad Mr. Keaton's career went aground at MGM, and that Ms. Sebastian's did not fare well once past her MGM era.
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