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Fiancées en folie

Titre original : Seven Chances
  • 1925
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  • 56min
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Buster Keaton in Fiancées en folie (1925)
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Un homme apprend qu'il héritera d'une fortune s'il se marie avant 19 heures le jour même.Un homme apprend qu'il héritera d'une fortune s'il se marie avant 19 heures le jour même.Un homme apprend qu'il héritera d'une fortune s'il se marie avant 19 heures le jour même.

  • Réalisation
    • Buster Keaton
  • Scénario
    • Roi Cooper Megrue
    • Clyde Bruckman
    • Jean C. Havez
  • Casting principal
    • Buster Keaton
    • Ruth Dwyer
    • T. Roy Barnes
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  • NOTE IMDb
    7,8/10
    13 k
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    • Réalisation
      • Buster Keaton
    • Scénario
      • Roi Cooper Megrue
      • Clyde Bruckman
      • Jean C. Havez
    • Casting principal
      • Buster Keaton
      • Ruth Dwyer
      • T. Roy Barnes
    • 78avis d'utilisateurs
    • 58avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Récompenses
      • 1 victoire et 1 nomination au total

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    Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton
    • James Shannon
    Ruth Dwyer
    • His Girl
    T. Roy Barnes
    T. Roy Barnes
    • His Partner
    Snitz Edwards
    Snitz Edwards
    • His Lawyer
    Frances Raymond
    Frances Raymond
    • Her Mother
    • (as Frankie Raymond)
    Erwin Connelly
    • The Clergyman
    Jules Cowles
    Jules Cowles
    • The Hired Hand
    Eugenia Gilbert
    Eugenia Gilbert
    • First Chance: Girl Who Laughs at Jimmie at the Club
    Doris Deane
    • Second Chance: Girl Who Laughs at Jimmie at the Golf Course
    Judy King
    Judy King
    • Third Chance: Girl Who Shreds 'Will You Marry Me' Note
    Hazel Deane
    • Fourth Chance: Girl Who Refuses on a False Assumption
    Bartine Burkett
    • Fifth Chance: Girl Proposed to Going Up the Staircase
    Connie Evans
    • Sixth Chance: Girl Proposed to Going Down the Staircase
    Pauline Toller
    • Seventh Chance: Girl Proposed to in the Phone Booth
    Jean Arthur
    Jean Arthur
    • Miss Smith - Office Receptionist
    • (non crédité)
    Lori Bara
    • Mother of Underage Girl
    • (non crédité)
    Rosalind Byrne
    Rosalind Byrne
    • Hat Check Girl
    • (non crédité)
    Louise Carver
    Louise Carver
    • Prospective Bride Who Operates Crane
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • Buster Keaton
    • Scénario
      • Roi Cooper Megrue
      • Clyde Bruckman
      • Jean C. Havez
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    8ackstasis

    Seven laughs a minute!

    Buster Keaton catapults himself down a steep hillside, an avalanche of pebbles, rocks and boulders tumbling in his wake. If any one of these objects were to strike him down, he would certainly be killed by the impact. He is almost escaping the rocks now; just a few more seconds of frantic sprinting is required. Suddenly, Keaton looks up, only to find a massive horde of woman striding purposefully towards him. He is stuck between a rock and a hard place: an avalanche behind him, and a flock of would-be brides ahead. Quickly and delicately weighing his chances of survival either way, Keaton turns determinedly towards the barrage of boulders. It is hilarious little moments like this that make Buster Keaton's silent comedies such a joy to watch, and 'Seven Chances' is certainly one of the funniest I've seen, brimming with the talented actor's trademark deadpan humour.

    The premise on which the story is based is singularly ridiculous, and so this allows Keaton to have a great deal of fun, placing his character in appropriately bizarre situations. Young Jimmy Shannon (Keaton) loves his sweetheart Mary Jones (Ruth Dwyer), but can never quite muster up the courage to tell her, and most certainly could never take that plunge into marriage. However, one day he discovers that his grandfather has left him the princely sum of $7 million, but only if he gets married… by 7 PM that day! After he is rejected by Mary (due to an unfortunate misunderstanding), Jimmy seeks out another would-be bride, ultimately realising that finding a wife isn't as easy as he had hoped. The first half of the film is admittedly light on Keaton's patented stunt-work, but it remains a clever and witty situation comedy, with poor Jimmy suffering the laughter of onlookers as he moves from one girl to the next, tentatively asking for their hands in marriage.

    When all this fails, an advertisement in the afternoon-edition newspaper brings hundreds of women to Jimmy's side, but by now he's realised that Mary is the only girl he could ever marry. As he struggles desperately to get to her home by 7:00, he is pursued by a horde of money-crazy ladies: big and small, young and old, beautiful and ugly. This is truly where Keaton comes into his element, and a hectic scramble down a hillside – pursued by an avalanche of rocks – is the film's most memorable moment {the idea for this scene came by accident, when Keaton inadvertently dislodged some rocks while he was running. The preview audience responded so favourably that he decided to re-shoot an extended sequence}. The paper-mâché rocks look quite convincing, and I was pretty much fooled into thinking that Keaten was really dodging the real thing (until I noticed him get bowled over by one of the boulders, without any apparent ill-effects!) 'Seven Chances' moves by at such a frenetic pace that there isn't a moment that could be trimmed. Though it runs for just 56 minutes, I had a huge smile on my face for every single one of them.
    pooch-8

    Exhilarating comedy jewel from silent era genius

    I love Seven Chances as much if not more than any of Keaton's other features, even if it does not enjoy the same reputation as The General or Sherlock, Jr. Using the sure-fire concept of a man who must take a wife or lose a fortune, Buster builds and executes one of his greatest extended gag sequences -- the chase of the reluctant groom by the army of brides. The first sections of the film detail Buster's inability to get anyone to take his proposal of marriage seriously, and then Buster pulls out all the stops on the famine to feast prospect once scores of women of all shapes and sizes begin to hunt down our hero while dressed in their wedding gowns. Seven Chances completely capitalizes on its comic potential, and Buster offers up another unbelievable tour de force of superb movie making.
    8wes-connors

    Buster Keaton Races to the Finish

    Desperate for money to save his failing business, junior stockbroker Buster Keaton (as James "Jimmie" Shannon) is understandably pleased to learn his recently deceased grandfather has tentatively left him $7 million. In order to inherit the money, Mr. Keaton must get married by 7 pm. After a misunderstanding with girlfriend Ruth Dwyer (as Mary Jones), Keaton gets "Seven Chances" to propose, but each woman turns him down. When a newspaper article reveals Keaton's potential, every woman in the vicinity decides to pursue him. Keaton decides marrying Ms. Dwyer is the correct way to go, if he can get away from a landslide of eager women...

    Lost on modern audiences is a moment when Keaton visits a theater to propose marriage to a showgirl, who we're told is Julian Eltinge; filmgoers in 1925 would have known this was a female impersonator. Another of Keaton's prospects in young Jean Arthur (as "Miss Smith"). The colorful opening gives "Seven Chances" a great start, but frequent "ethnic" humor is not funny. It's hard to believe Keaton considered this film substandard. Even before it gets going, it's a top quality production. There are enough chuckles before the famous chase scene, which really begins when Keaton falls asleep in church and the women start rushing to meet him.

    ******** Seven Chances (3/11/25) Buster Keaton ~ Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, Snitz Edwards, T. Roy Barnes
    8slokes

    Love For Sale

    True love takes a lot of work - but this is ridiculous!

    Jimmie Shannon (Buster Keaton) is a partner in a brokerage who can't quite bring himself to propose to Mary (Ruth Dwyer), the only woman he loves. Then, his business facing ruin, he discovers he stands to inherit a fortune if only he gets married that day. He proposes to Mary, but she's put off by his apparent insincerity. So Jimmie is left to find a woman, any woman, who will marry him. Will love prevail?

    The film is an odd one for Keaton, starting off with a brief color sequence (in 1925) and moving quite slowly for Buster through the first third. The story was one Keaton had handed to him, rather than one he worked on himself, and feels at times like a "ladies' picture," focusing as it does on Jimmie's frustrated feelings and Mary's unhappiness.

    For a while, Buster's not even the main laugh-getter in the film. For a while, he plays a kind of straight man to troll-visaged Snitz Edwards, playing the lawyer bringing the news of Jimmie's inheritance. Snitz chases after Jimmie and his partner, who think he's a process-server and dodge him, but Snitz prevails. Buster still pines for Mary, saying he can love no other woman (which she happens to hear over a telephone connection, changing her mind), but agrees to bring to bring a woman to church before the deadline out of loyalty to his partner.

    "In case two show up, I'll marry the other," Snitz declares.

    There are other oddities about "Seven Chances," like racial humor (Jimmie almost proposes to a black woman; a blackface actor plays a thick-headed hired hand) and the "Saphead"-style character Buster plays. It would seem like a lesser Keaton for that, but instead emerges as a masterwork of pacing and narrative. Just as you begin to settle in to "Seven Chances" tea-cozy aesthetic, it ramps things up for one of the great double-rally endings in movie history.

    There's also a charming sequence where Jimmie tries to find a bride among a list of female members of his country club, the "seven chances" of the film's title. He burns through those chances in six minutes, and then gets rejected by a receptionist (Jean Arthur) and a hat-check girl (Rosalind Byrne) for good measure. The sequence plays with set design and framing to keep you always wondering as to what will happen next.

    One amazing thing about the film you might not notice is the clever use of panning. Camera pans were still fairly new in cinema; framing was often stationary. But Buster is always in motion, and the camera moves with him. One clever shot, of Buster finding a turtle attached to his tie, apparently employs a treadmill in order to achieve an overhead camera angle.

    The gags here keep coming, and give "Seven Chances" the feel of a classic Keaton short. Except there's a real story here to be told, and the humor always works to move the ideas forward. It's a classic demonstration of Keaton's ingenuity - even if he didn't have a hand in the film's conception or writing he directed it, and it shows - as well as his ability to find as many ways of making you laugh in as little time as possible.
    Snow Leopard

    Hilarious & Inventive

    Buster Keaton's comic genius makes "Seven Chances" a wildly entertaining film. The first half of it is quite good, if imperfect, but the second half is a tour-de-force of sustained humor and creativity. Keaton plays Jimmie Shannon, a young man who learns that he stands to inherit a fortune, but only if he marries by 7 PM that very day. It's the kind of goofy premise that in lesser hands could be a complete flop, but Keaton gets all kinds of possibilities out of it.

    For most of the first half of the film, Jimmie is busy racing around proposing to every woman he can find. His true love, Mary, tries to find Jimmie herself, but he is already off on his frantic search for someone to accompany him to the altar. The search is always funny, at times extremely so. This first half has a handful of things that don't quite work, such as the black-faced servant (who was, though, probably intended as a sympathetic character), but if it were not for that and a couple other small details, this would be a nearly perfect film.

    In the second half, all of the complications set up a frantic chase sequence, with literally hundreds (at least) of angry women pursuing Jimmie through the city, while he tries to get to Mary. This might be the best comic chase sequence ever filmed. It is hilarious and incredibly inventive, with careful choreography, a great variety of backgrounds, and a huge collection of gags both obvious and subtle. No description could do it justice - it has to be seen at least once to appreciate it.

    If you are a fan of Keaton or of silent films in general, make sure to see this one.

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    • Anecdotes
      Buster Keaton had this project foisted upon him by producer Joseph M. Schenck, who had bought the rights to the hit Broadway show. Keaton later called it his least favorite feature and tried to keep film historian Raymond Rohauer from restoring the only known copy of the movie.
    • Gaffes
      Just as the horde of would-be brides overruns the college football game, one of the players can be seen throwing himself to the ground, already pretending to be trampled.
    • Citations

      Title Card: By the time Jimmie had reached the church, he had proposed to everything in skirts, including a Scotchman.

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    • Date de sortie
      • 23 octobre 1925 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langues
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      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Seven Chances
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Chatsworth, Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis(train scene)
    • Société de production
      • Buster Keaton Productions
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    • Durée
      56 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Mixage
      • Silent
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.33 : 1

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