Rent The Cameraman (1928)
4.0 of 5 from 68 ratings
1h 9min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
Buster Keaton is at the peak of his slapstick powers in 'The Cameraman' - the first film that the silent-screen legend made after signing with MGM, and his last great masterpiece. The final work over which he maintained creative control, this clever farce is the culmination of an extraordinary, decade-long run that produced some of the most innovative and enduring comedies of all time. Keaton plays a hapless newsreel cameraman desperate to impress both his new employer and his winsome office crush as he zigzags up and down Manhattan hustling for a scoop. Along the way, he goes for a swim (and winds up soaked), mimes every position of a baseball game in an empty Yankee Stadium, and teams up with a memorable monkey sidekick (the famous Josephine). The marvelously inventive film-within-a-film setup allows Keaton's imagination to run wild, yielding both sly insights into the travails of moviemaking and an emotional payoff of disarming poignancy. - Actors:
- Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey, Harry Gribbon, Richard Alexander, Edward Brophy, Ray Cooke, Vernon Dent, William Irving, Harry Keaton, Louise Keaton, Charles A. Lindbergh, Bert Moorhouse, Jack Raymond
- Directors:
- Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
- Producers:
- Buster Keaton, Lawrence Weingarten
- Writers:
- Clyde Bruckman, Lew Lipton, Joseph Farnham, Al Boasberg, Byron Morgan
- Aka:
- Buster Keaton: The Cameraman / Snapshots
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Classics, Comedy, Drama, Music & Musicals, Romance
- Collections:
- A History of Baseball Films, A Brief History of Film...
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/07/2020
- Run Time:
- 69 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Stereo, Silent
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Score composer and conducted by Timothy Brock and performed by the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and I Virtuosi Italiani in 2020, presented in uncompressed stereo
- Audio commentary from 2004 featuring Glenn Mitchell, author of A–Z of 'Silent Film Comedy'
- Spite Marriage (1929), Buster Keaton's next feature for MGM following 'The Cameraman', in a new 2K restoration, with a 2004 commentary by film historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance
- Time Travelers, a new documentary by Daniel Raim featuring interviews with Bengtson and film historian Marc Wanamaker
- So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton and MGM, a 2004 documentary by film historians Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird
- The Motion Picture Camera (1979) documentary
- New interview with James L. Neibaur, author of The Fall of Buster Keaton
- An essay by film critic Imogen Sara Smith and a chapter from Keaton's 1960 autobiography, cowritten with Charles Samuels
