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8.0A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
Cast
- Buster Keaton as Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.
- Kathryn McGuire as The Girl
- Joe Keaton as The Girl's Father / Man on Film Screen
- Erwin Connelly as The Hired Man / The Butler
- Ward Crane as The Local Sheik / The Villain
- Doris Deane as Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema (uncredited)
Themes
- pickpocket
- amateur detective
- slapstick comedy
- jungle
- black and white
- motorcycle
- false accusations
- silent film
- projectionist
- booby trap
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Buster Keaton
- Written by
- Jean Havez Joseph A. Mitchell Clyde Bruckman
- Produced by
- Joseph M. Schenck Buster Keaton
- Starring
- Buster Keaton
- Cinematography
- Elgin Lessley Byron Houck
- Edited by
- Buster Keaton
- Music by
- Club Foot Orchestra (1999), Craig Marks (2014), Timothy Brock (2015), Robert Israel (2020)
- Production company
- Metro Pictures Corporation
- Distributed by
- Metro-Goldwyn Pictures
- Release date
- April 21, 1924 ( 1924-04-21 )
- Running time
- 45 minutes (5 reels)
- Country
- United States
- Language
- Silent (English intertitles )
- Box office
- $448,337
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Encyclopedic overview
Sherlock Jr. is a 1924 American silent comedy film starring and directed by Buster Keaton and written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, and Joseph A. Mitchell. It features Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, and Ward Crane.
In 1991, Sherlock Jr. was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2000, the American Film Institute, as part of its AFI 100 Years... series, ranked the film #62 in its AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs. David Thomson calls it "a breakthrough. It is as if a filmmaker had at last learned the point of the whole thing."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sherlock, Jr.” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.