Seven chances [videorecording] / Joseph M. Schenck presents a Metro-Goldwyn production ; Buster Keaton Productions ; screen version by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez & Joseph Mitchell ; directed by Buster Keaton.
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FilmPublisher number: K842 | Kino Lorber, Inc.Publication details: [New York, N.Y.] : Kino Lorber, Inc., [2011]Edition: Ultimate ed., 2011 remastered edDescription: 1 videodisc (56 min.) : sd., col. tint and b&w ; 4 3/4 inOther title: - 7 chances
- Music arranged and directed by Robert Israel ; 2011 remastered ed. produced by Bret Wood ; licensed by Cohen Film Collection.
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Main Library | DVD | COMEDY Seven ch | Available | 33111007370923 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Buster Keaton plays a young lawyer who will inherit $7 million at 7 o'clock on his 27th birthday--provided he is married. Long before discovering this, Keaton has pursued a lifelong courtship of Ruth Dwyer, whose refusals have become ritualistic over the years (the passage of time is amusingly conveyed by showing a puppy grow to adulthood). He proposes again, but this time she turns him down because she thinks (mistakenly) that he wants her only so that he can claim his inheritance. The doleful Keaton is thus obliged to spend the few hours left before the 7 PM deadline in search of a bride--any bride. He has no luck whatsoever until his pal T. Roy Barnes prints the story of Keaton's incoming legacy in the local newspaper. As a result, literally hundreds of women, bedecked in veils and bearing bouquets, chase Keaton through the busy streets of Los Angeles. When Keaton's producer Joseph M. Schenck bought the film rights to the Roi Cooper Megrue stage play Seven Chances, Keaton opted to forego most of the play's plot complications, devoting his energies to the bride-hunting vignettes and the climactic slapstick chase. The final scenes originally laid an egg with preview audiences--until the sequence was saved by "three little rocks." During the closing moments of the chase, Buster accidentally dislodged three small stones in the ground, which rolled after him as he escaped the thundering herd of would-be brides. The audience laughed immoderately at the tiny rocks, thereby inspiring Keaton to reshoot the ending, utilizing scores of huge, rolling boulders. The extra effort worked beautifully; while not his best silent feature, Seven Chances contains one of Keaton's most hilarious finales. Watch for Jean Arthur in a bit as a receptionist. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
"Kino Classics from Kino Lorber."
"Mastered from 33mm materials preserved by the Library of Congress"--Container.
Adapted from David Belasco's comedy by Roi Cooper Megrue.
Kino Lorber, Inc.: K842.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1925.
Special features include optional audio commentary and conversation by film historians Ken Gordon and Bruce Lawton (2.0 stereo.); tour of filming locations by John Bengtson, author of Silent echoes; about the technicolor sequence by film historian Eric Grayson; gallery of production stills; and the bonus 1947 film A brideless groom (17 min.) and the 1904 Edison short film How a French nobleman got a wife through the New York Herald personal columns.
Music arranged and directed by Robert Israel ; 2011 remastered ed. produced by Bret Wood ; licensed by Cohen Film Collection.
Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards.
"[T]he story of an eligible young bachelor who must marry by 7:00 p.m. in order to receive a $7 million inheritance. After bungling a proposal to his longtime sweetheart ... , Jimmie ... embarks on a desperate quest for a bride. He experiences a hilarous series of rejections, until a newspaper announcement of Jimmie's predicament provides him with more fiancées than he can handle"--Container.
DVD; 2.0 stereo. and 5.1 surround.
Silent film with English intertitles and original music scores.