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Originaltitel: The Blacksmith

1922
21 Min.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuBuster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.

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- Buster Keaton
- Malcolm St. Clair
Drehbuch
- Buster Keaton
- Malcolm St. Clair
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6,8/10

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Regie
- Buster Keaton
- Malcolm St. Clair
Drehbuch
- Buster Keaton
- Malcolm St. Clair
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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Buster Keaton

Blacksmith's Assistant
(as 'Buster' Keaton)

Edward F. Cline

Engineer
(Nicht genannt)

Virginia Fox

Horsewoman
(Nicht genannt)

Billy Franey

Sheriff
(Nicht genannt)

Joe Roberts

Blacksmith
(Nicht genannt)

Malcolm St. Clair

Engineer
(Nicht genannt)

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6ccthemovieman-1

'Mildly Amusing' About Sums It Up

I would rate this below-par for a Buster Keaton short. It's not bad, just not quite up to Buster's wild and craziness he usually exhibits in these short 20-minute films. He set high standards.

Instead of amazing physical feats or a bunch of chase scenes, most of the jokes are either Buster getting a horse dirty or breaking something or someone else doing it, or a nutty invention for a "shock absorber" for riding a horse. They are all mildly amusing, but that's it.

Perhaps part of the problem is that most of the movie takes place in a blacksmith shop/automobile garage. Keaton, with his athletic prowess, needs room to maneuver, and he doesn't have it here.

Kirpianuscus

horses and cars

A simple story. A great effect. A lovely comedy, in which not exactly the story is significant but the amazing inventivity. A nice short film, proposing an apprentice and his hilarious mistakes and a love story among horses and cars.

8KennethEagleSpirit

Buster Keaton was always my favorite ...

And films like this one is why. Its just one laugh after another. This is absolutely one of Keaton's better works. One gag after another, all pulled off as only Keaton could. All things work well. The photography is well done, the continuity is much better than in most films of that day, the sets, the props, the other players, all done well. And I loved the last minute or two of the film. Its just cool. And there is, of course, the destruction of the Rolls Royce. The beautiful new car had been a gift to Keaton from his in-laws. I wonder how funny THEY thought THAT was? I suppose it was cost efficient in the making of the film. But as far as cost efficiency and laughs go this flick is extravagant.

7SendiTolver

You're Not Helping!

Buster Keaton works as apprentice in the blacksmith's shop. When little misunderstanding sends the blacksmith into jail, Buster has to take over all the jobs. One little mistake leads to another and accidents grow bigger, until Buster destroys gleaming white Rolls Royce, and he is finally chased out from the town.

'The Blacksmith' doesn't include stunts on the large scale, but every little gag is so well tied with the next one, that it makes the film flow. Above the average on Buster Keaton scale, but probably the best one in the sense of pure storytelling - every joke and gag moves the story forward, and are not there just for the laughs. Or just for the sake of performing big stunt.

Snow Leopard

Lots of Creative Material

This is an excellent short comedy with a lot of creative material and a good variety of gags. The setting, with Buster as a blacksmith's assistant, lends itself to a lot of good laughs. Buster is very funny in his approach to helping out various horse-owners, and then it gets even funnier when he tries his hand at repairing cars. There's not really much of a plot, but there's a lot of good material that keeps on coming, and it's good fun right up to the very clever last shot.

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The gleaming Rolls-Royce destroyed in the film was reportedly a wedding present given to Buster Keaton by his in-laws. By the time this film was made, relations with them had soured considerably.

Alternative Versionen
In June 2013, Argentine film collector, curator and historian Fernando Martín Peña (who had previously unearthed the complete version of Metropolis) discovered an alternate version of this film, a sort of remake whose last reel differs completely from the previously known version. Film historians have since found evidence that the version of The Blacksmith Peña uncovered was a substantial reshoot undertaken months after completion of principal photography and a preview screening in New York. They now believe the rediscovered version was Keaton's final cut intended for wide distribution. Following Peña's discovery, a third version of the film, featuring at least one scene which doesn't occur in either of the other two, was found in the collection of former film distributor Blackhawk Films.