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Speak Easily [1932]
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Our Price: £2.74 (subject to change)
When boring, sustainable but when funny, REALLY funny!
Review date: 2006-04-06 Rating: 8 out of 10
Though there are some parts of the movie that are a bit boring, the funny parts (mainly the ones where it involves Buster Keaton doing physical comedy), are incredibly hilarious and more than make up for the rest!
Though other Buster Keaton movies have more laughs, the ones to be had here are more intense and last longer (at least they do in the last part of the movie when Buster screws up the broadway play that he himself has financed).
It's not one of his best but it's still worth seeing for Buster's brilliant performance as a professor and just to hear him say the line: "Is this uncouth fellow bothering you?"(Or something like this. Don't remember exactly how it goes now but the way he says it is REALLY funny)!
For this price, it's definitely worth buying. Highly recommended and allow me to disagree with most people: I still believe that if Buster had been given some space and better scripts or roles, he would have been as brilliant as a talking comedian as he was a silent one!
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Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Jimmy Durante
Buster Keaton
Ruth Selwyn
Hedda Hopper
Thelma Todd
Creators:
Buster Keaton (Primary Contributor)
Buster Keaton (Producer)
Jimmy Durante (Primary Contributor)
Harold Wenstrom (Cinematographer)
William LeVanway (Editor)
Clarence Budington Kelland (Writer)
Laurence E. Johnson (Writer)
Ralph Spence (Writer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Alpha Video
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
EAN: 0089218443397
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, PAL,
Release date: 2004-06-22
Universal product code (UPC): 892184433978
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Running time: 80 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1932-08-13
Language: English (Original Language)