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Buster Keaton's
SHERLOCK JR.

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♪ Live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner

Director Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton
Screenplay Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, Joseph A. Mitchell
Cinematography Byron Houck, Elgin Lessley
1924 | USA | DCP | Approx. 45 min. | Silent with English intertitles

Sleep-fantasizing projectionist Buster jumps right on to the movie screen, finding himself furiously edited from garden bench to city street to cliff – then becomes the ace detective of his wildest cinema fantasies. “A piece of native American surrealism.” – Pauline Kael.

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