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Buster rutscht ins Filmland

Originaltitel: Free and Easy
  • 1930
  • Passed
  • 1 Std. 32 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
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Buster Keaton, Gwen Lee, and Anita Page in Buster rutscht ins Filmland (1930)
Free And Easy: Make Me Laugh
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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA bumbling manager tries to get a small town beauty contest winner into the movies.A bumbling manager tries to get a small town beauty contest winner into the movies.A bumbling manager tries to get a small town beauty contest winner into the movies.

  • Regie
    • Edward Sedgwick
  • Drehbuch
    • Richard Schayer
    • Paul Dickey
    • Al Boasberg
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Buster Keaton
    • Anita Page
    • Trixie Friganza
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
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    5,5/10
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    • Regie
      • Edward Sedgwick
    • Drehbuch
      • Richard Schayer
      • Paul Dickey
      • Al Boasberg
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Buster Keaton
      • Anita Page
      • Trixie Friganza
    • 34Benutzerrezensionen
    • 13Kritische Rezensionen
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
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    Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton
    • Elmer Butts
    Anita Page
    Anita Page
    • Elvira Plunkett
    Trixie Friganza
    Trixie Friganza
    • Ma Plunkett
    Robert Montgomery
    Robert Montgomery
    • Larry Mitchell
    Fred Niblo
    Fred Niblo
    • Director Fred Niblo
    Edgar Dearing
    Edgar Dearing
    • Studio Gate Guard
    Gwen Lee
    Gwen Lee
    • Gwen Lee - Actress in Bedroom Scene
    John Miljan
    John Miljan
    • John Miljan - Actor in Bedroom Scene
    Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore
    • Lionel Barrymore - Director of Bedroom Scene
    William Haines
    William Haines
    • William Haines - Guest at Premiere
    William Collier Sr.
    William Collier Sr.
    • William Collier Sr. - Master of Ceremonies at Premiere
    Dorothy Sebastian
    Dorothy Sebastian
    • Dorothy Sebastian - Actress in Cave Scene
    Karl Dane
    Karl Dane
    • Karl Dane - Actor in Cave Scene
    David Burton
    • Director David Burton
    Jack Baxley
    • Train Conductor
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Edward Brophy
    Edward Brophy
    • Benny - The Stage Manager
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Richard Carle
    Richard Carle
    • Eunuch Crowning Elmer
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Louise Carver
    Louise Carver
    • Big German Woman
    • (Nicht genannt)
    • Regie
      • Edward Sedgwick
    • Drehbuch
      • Richard Schayer
      • Paul Dickey
      • Al Boasberg
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    7rap-39

    Well worth watching!!

    The first 2/3 of the flick has Buster Keaton rambling around movie sets, pretty much getting into trouble. While the last roughly 1/3 of the movie focusing on the "Free and Easy" dance presentation, very entertaining (at least to this writer). If you are at all interested in the 1930's movies then this is a must have for your collection, and you WILL enjoy it!

    Incidentally, it's easy to see why background dancer, Ann Dvorak went from an 18 year old dancer in this film to co-starring in a major movie (Scarface) only two years later. She really captures your attention – a beautiful gal!!

    Regarding the singer/dancer listed as "Marion Shilling", IMDb indicates that Marion Shilling is the "Singer and Dancer in 'The Free and Easy' Number (uncredited)". The girl dancing with Keaton most decidedly is not Marion Shilling.

    "Free and Easy" was released March 22, 1930. I have a number of DVD's featuring Marion Shilling in co-starring roles: "Shadow of the Law'with William Powell (released a couple months later on June 6, 1930). I also have DVD's of Marion Shilling in "Rio Rattler" (released Aug 1, 1935) and "I'll Name the Murderer" – Jan. 27, 1936. The dancer with Keaton in "Free and Easy" bears little resemblance to the Marion Shilling that co-starred in the DVD's I list above.

    In his review of Free and Easy, Kidboots states: "Elmer is teamed with a cute dancer (Estelle Moran)". This may well be; however I could find no movies or pictures of an actress named Estelle Moran (or "Estelle Morgan") from that period. So the identity of the singer/dancer remains unclear – except it is not Marion Shilling. Perhaps if you listed the dancer as "Unknown" it would be more accurate.
    cwgallagher

    Slow and Dreadful!

    Keaton had been able to maintain some control over his first two films at MGM,which were his last silents,but the studio foisted this TURKEY on him,and as it was a financial winner he lost any say over his final six films for the studio. This is perhaps the most leaden film Keaton ever made! It is incredibly slow and dull,with only minimal patches of action ,and nothing really funny for Buster to do. The dance numbers performed by the chubbiest dance line I've ever seen,are incredibly bad! It's interesting to compare them to the ones in "Speak Easily" (perhaps his best MGM sound film.) One can understand Buster's drinking and depression after making something as bad as this!
    6bkoganbing

    Keaton The Schnook

    Free And Easy is another variation on the Merton of the Movies type film where unknown schnook goes to Hollywood and winds up a comedy star. It worked fine for Glenn Hunter on stage and Stu Erwin on the screen. The lead in Free And Easy was a part that was perfect for Eddie Cantor. But Buster Keaton got it and it wasn't quite right for him.

    Keaton, known in Hollywood as the Great Stone Face, was one of the greatest pantomimists the screen ever knew. Why you would star someone in a film that has musical numbers, though you would not classify it as a musical is beyond me. That title song which Keaton croaks would have been perfect for Eddie Cantor.

    In watching it I thought I recognized the plot of this film. It was part of the story line of Pepe, the great Cantinfas all star production from thirty years later. Keaton is in love with young Anita Page who is the young screen hopeful from his home town. But she's got eyes for the flawed young movie star Robert Montgomery.

    Like Pepe, a number of folks on the MGM lot made guest appearances as themselves. One of the most interesting was William Haines who at that time competing with Robert Montgomery for juvenile parts. Haines of course was one of the first film stars outted as gay and his fall was a lucky break for Montgomery's career.

    Best in the film is Trixie Friganza, a great vaudeville star who played Page's number. She really harries and harasses poor Keaton. Page has won some kind of contest and for reasons I can't explain the Chamber of Commerce of their hometown has appointed Keaton as her agent and manager. Like they have the right and the power. No wonder Trixie's mad at him.

    If you've seen Pepe, you know how this turns out.
    drednm

    Keaton's Starring Talkie Debut

    Not really that bad but very bizarre. Buster Keaton in his starring talkie debut had talent and charm to spare, but the film is so weird. MGM had taken control of Keaton as had the Talmadge family, but he's game here as a hayseed manager accompanying Miss Gopher City (Anita Page) to Hollywood along with her stage door mother (Trixie Friganza). Some really funny stuff among the not-so-funny. MGM tosses in some guests stars like William Haines, Robert Montgomery, Lionel Barrymore, Dorothy Sebastian, Karl Dane, Gwen Lee, John Miljan, William Collier, and directors like Fred Niblo and Cecl B. DeMille, who chats up yes men about his future leading lady: Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Marion Davies, or Bebe Daniels. Lots of MGM name dropping and studio in jokes. Keaton is actually very good in his transition to sound, but the film meanders away and around the bend. He's surprisingly good in a dance number with an excellent young woman (is she Marion Shilling?) to "Free and Easy," which I like more every time I see it. Keaton could DANCE! And Ann Dvorak is in the chorus. Friganza steals several scenes. Page is beautiful. Montgomery gets his voice dubbed in a singing number. Niblo is hilarious as himself, but Buster Keaton, the great and wonderful silent comic, is the reason to watch Free and Easy. He's funny and light and tragic all at once. Was there anyone EVER like Buster Keaton? Around the time of filming he was being screwed by ex-wife Natalie Talmadge and her family as well as by MGM--the same studio that screwed William Haines, John Gilbert, Lillian Gish, Bessie Love, Anita Page and scores of others. See this film. Give it a chance and just watch BUSTER KEATON.
    GaryWang

    A treasure trove of footage featuring Hollywood & MGM in '30

    Buster Keaton's talents sadly are not put to very good use here. He appears to be sufficiently alert, however the producer and writers have given him nothing to work with and there is clearly no opportunity for his trademark expertise at improvisation. Sad-eyed Buster's excessively shrill nemesis is a stage mother from Hell who steals all of their scenes together through sheer brute force by overacting, rendering Mr. Keaton's character pathetic and perpetually downtrodden. Then again, the viewer is also subjected to Robert Montgomery crooning so there really is plenty of blame to go around here from a production standpoint. Nevertheless, this is an important movie that features unique and valuable insights into Hollywood soon after the industry's changeover to sound. Billy Haines appears in a cameo as himself and he says a few words before wending his way down to the reserved seating section far forward in the Grauman's Chinese Theater--and the camera follows him! The POV includes panoramic scenes of the interior, as well as a close-up look at the Red Carpet outside of the theater as the glamorous stars of the day drove up, alighted from their magnificent cars and had a few words to say into the microphone before heading inside, framed by shots of the crowd that has gathered outside to witness the spectacle. Jackie Coogan is featured here as himself, and the story soon shifts to the MGM Studio where we are afforded further behind-the-scenes eyefuls of a sound stage with all the trappings, outbuildings, gated entrances and eavesdropping on the likes of Fred Niblo and Cecil B. DeMille as they candidly discuss Garbo, Crawford and Shearer! I have always prized MGM's The Jean Harlow Story, starring Jean Harlow--er, make that BOMBSHELL for the unique and rare glimpses that it provides of the Metro-Golden-Mayer studio circa 1933, but this movie was made three years earlier and the storyline is set at the studio. It is therefore particularly instructive for anyone who is similarly intrigued by sustained peeks at real, undesigning people and authentic settings of historical significance in Hollywood from some of the earliest days of its glorious Golden Age. There is some vintage lightning in a bottle here in this Keaton clunker, for anyone who cares to a take a look.

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    • Wissenswertes
      Talkie debut for Buster Keaton.
    • Patzer
      When Larry orders his car, a visible mike descends from the upper right hand corner of the frame while he says his line, then rises out of sight again.
    • Zitate

      Ma: From now on we're going to manage ourselves, Mr. Butts! Oh, I've never been so humiliated in my life. I'm ashamed to show my face.

      Elmer Butts: I don't blame ya.

    • Verbindungen
      Alternate-language version of Estrellados (1930)
    • Soundtracks
      The Free And Easy
      (1930) (uncredited)

      Lyrics by Roy Turk

      Music by Fred E. Ahlert

      Played during the opening credits

      Sung and danced by Buster Keaton, Doris McMahon and chorus

      Copyright 1930 Robbins Music Corporation

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 14. September 1931 (Deutschland)
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      • Vereinigte Staaten
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      • Englisch
      • Deutsch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • Free and Easy
    • Drehorte
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, Kalifornien, USA(Studio)
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      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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      • 1 Std. 32 Min.(92 min)
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