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The Cameraman

1928

Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harry Gribbon, Harold Goodwin ...

7.9

2,976

Comedy. Drama Luke Shannon (Buster Keaton), is a bumbling photographer who, in order to win the favor of a beautiful woman, takes a job as a newsreel cameraman. Hilarity ensues as he stumbles through a parade, a Chinese Tong war, a yacht club regatta, a crowded dressing room and a solo baseball game.

	Author	Review
United States	Mordaunt Hall The New York Times	"[It] is filled with guffaws and grins, the sort of thing with many original and adroitly worked-out gags"	POS
United States	Don Druker Chicago Reader	"It includes some of the best asides on the techniques and psychology of shooting films ever captured in a movie."	POS
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"A raucous, more accessible iteration of Vertov’s meta-cinematic masterpiece (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"A delightful piece of film-making within-a-film which is both an insight into Keaton's own logic, and also, alas, a sort of epitaph."	POS
United States	Variety	"Good laugh picture with Buster Keaton (...) Day is appealing as the femme"	POS

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