Sherlock Jnr

Silent Comedy Classics

Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, and Paul Shallcross on piano - a hilarious evening is guaranteed!

Fri 12 March 7.30pm Eye Cawley Hall

Sherlock Junior (U)

Director: Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton
USA, 1924, 45 minutes

Buster plays a cinema projectionist, framed for theft, who daydreams himself into life as a daring detective. As well as a great chase sequence full of superbly timed gags there is the unforgettable moment when Buster forces his way onto the screen and into the movie he is projecting only to find himself beset by perils. Only an artist aware of the complex appeal to fantasy in cinema could have conceived this masterpiece, the most philosophically eloquent of silent comedies.

Plus a programme of supporting shorts

NeighborsNeighbors (1920, 18 mins)

Director by and Starring: Buster Keaton

A wonderfully fast-paced, delightfully anarchic film this features some of Keaton's most acrobatic stunts.

What It Feels Like to Be Run Over (1903, 1 min)

Mary Jane's Mishap (1903, 4 mins)

Big Business (1929, 18 mins)

Starring: Laurel and Hardy

Stan and Ollie decide to set up a business selling Christmas trees door-to-door, mayhem ensues when one irascible customer objects.

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