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26 September 1931 (USA) morePlot:
A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Keaton was SO right about this one moreCast
(Credited cast) | Buster Keaton | ... | Homer Van Dine Harmon |
 | Anita Page | ... | Margie Kelly |
| Cliff Edwards | ... | Poggle |
| Frank Rowan | ... | Butch |
| Norman Phillips Jr. | ... | Clipper Kelly (as Norman Phillips) |
| Frank LaRue | ... | Police Sergeant |
| Oscar Apfel | ... | The Judge |
| Syd Saylor | ... | One Round Mulvaney |
| Clark Marshall | ... | Lefty |
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Buster Keaton's most commercially successful film to date -- to his chagrin, since he made it under protest at MGM's insistence and felt that the studio would feel justified in ignoring his artistic opinions in the future. moreFAQ
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Buster Keaton referred to this as "100% turkey" and said he knew it was going to be very unfunny when he read the script. Boy, was he on the mark. Jules White who directed the Three Stooges, who were funny for what they did, directed this. Keaton must've had the patience of Job to put up with such an amateur. The movie is a terrible waste of Keaton's talent. He makes three or four tries at his type of humor. His gracefulness when he falls makes you sigh and wish for more. Thank goodness he had other movies that were better than this afterward. I realize the audiences of 1931 were thrilled to see talkies, but how this movie ended up as a big moneymaker I can't see. Anita Page, "the girl", appeared with Buster in the equally dreadful "Free and Easy" the year before. Her performance is better in this, but that thick New York accent is rather hard to take. As for Buster's credibility as an upper-crust millionaire, I had no trouble with his voice or grammar at all. He just sounds like a normal person, not Thurston Howell III. I think that he did get sloppy in other movies with his dialect, but if you really pay attention you'll notice that he sounds perfectly believable as an educated man. He wasn't school-educated, but he was a smart fellow and certainly knew how to talk. By the way, as of this writing Anita Page is still living at the age of 96.