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The Paleface - Movie Review |
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This is one of Keaton's great two-reeler shorts, made just before his classic Cops and his subsequent launch into feature films. Keaton was at the peak of his comic powers here and the inventiveness never stops through all the surprising twists and turns. It all culminates in a plunge from a seventy-five-foot suspension bridge. Buster unwittingly wanders into an Indian tribe while chasing a butterfly. Unfortunately these Indians have resolved to kill the next white man who enters their territory by burning him at the stake because they are being forced off their land by greed white oil tycoons. Keaton falls for the chief's daughter and is eventually accepted by the tribe as "Little Chief Paleface" and tries to stop the oil tycoons from displacing them.
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The Paleface - Cast & Crew |
| Directed by: Buster Keaton Produced by: Joseph M Schenck Written by: Buster Keaton Starring: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox Crew: Elgin Lessley Copyright: Public Domain Format: Silent, Black + White Duration: 21 mins Year: 1922 Tags: Buster Keaton, Comedy, Indians, Keaton, Oil tycoons, Slapstick, Vaudeville |
The Paleface Trivia - Did You Know?Shooting from the rope suspension bridge in the Santa Susana Mountains, Keaton had planned to land in a net out of camera shot. However, a technician who had made a test jump and ended up breaking his shoulder and leg. Keaton made the jump anyway because as he said "I didn't want to show yellow before my own gang." This time it turned out better as Buster, who was more experienced in taking falls from his vaudeville days, hit the net perfectly. Related FilmsThe Goat | The General | Disorder in the Court | Malice In The Palace | A Jitney Elopement | |
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