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The saphead

Bertie Van Alstyne is the spoiled son of a powerful Wall Street financier. Unable to escape the wealth and comfort that are foisted upon him, he pursues individuality in a series of comic misadventures. This is Buster Keaton's first starring role and the film that launched his career.

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  • "Der Dummkopf"
  • "Buster Keaton"
  • "One week"
  • "One week"@en
  • "High sign"
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  • "Saphead, The high sign and One week"
  • "Saphead, The high sign and One week"@en
  • "Buster Keaton is The saphead"@en

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  • "Bertie Van Alstyne is the spoiled son of a powerful Wall Street financier. Unable to escape the wealth and comfort that are foisted upon him, he pursues individuality in a series of comic misadventures. This is Buster Keaton's first starring role and the film that launched his career."
  • "Bertie Van Alstyne is the spoiled son of a powerful Wall Street financier. Unable to escape the wealth and comfort that are foisted upon him, he pursues individuality in a series of comic misadventures. This is Buster Keaton's first starring role and the film that launched his career."@en
  • "This film was adapted from a play that had its origin in the late 1880s. Keaton plays Bertie Van Alotye, the fool of the family who in his very first visit to the stock exchange, thwarts the villain and saves his family fortune. Although scope for comic business was limited (there is only one stand-out comic scene), the dramatic character of the role helped Buster to develop his comic persona."@en
  • "Bertie Van Alstyne, the spoiled son of a powerful Wall Street financier, tries to escape the wealth and comfort that is foisted upon him. He pursues individuality in a series of comic misadventures in the speakeasies of New York, the altar of matrimony and the floor of the American stock exchange. The high sign: Buster is unwittingly involved in a radical secret society known as the Blinking Buzzards, stumbling from assassin to bodyguard in a romantic misadventure. One week: dreams of placid domesticity are systematically demolished in the story of a couple's determination to build a prefabricated honemoon cottage."@en
  • "[The saphead] Bertie, le fils gâté mais naïf d'un riche financier de Wall Street, déjoue une fraude financière à l'occasion de sa première visite à la Bourse de New York, sauvant du coup la fortune familiale. [The high sign] Buster se trouve mêlé à une société secrète dans un manoir semé de pièges. [One week] La parabole de la détermination d'un couple de nouveaux mariés à se construire une demeure préfabriquée."
  • ""Keaton stars as Bertie van Alstyne, the spoiled and not-so-bright son of a powerful Wall Street mogul. Unable to escape the wealth and comfort that are thrust upon him, he searches for his own individuality in a comic series of misadventures that range from the speakeasies of New York to the matrimonial altar, and even on to the vaunted floor of the Stock Exchange. The saphead was instrumental in establishing Keaton as a bona fide star and greatly influenced the formulation of the star's persona--that of a lonely, stone-faced soul thwarted by circumstance but indefatigable in his struggle for love and survival within a chaotic world"--Videodisc sleeve."@en
  • "Features the work of film comedian Buster Keaton, showing a variety of his early, silent films."@en
  • "[The Saphead] Bertie, the spoiled son of a powerful Wall Street financier, pursues his individuality in a series of comic misadventures. [The high sign] Buster becomes unwittingly involved in a radical secret society known as the Blinking Buzzards. [One week] Keaton and his bride inherit a do-it-by numbers pre-fab house, only somebody has mixed up the numbers."@en
  • "More than just a silent comedian known for his pratfalls and clever mimicry, Buster Keaton was an unparalleled genius of the American cinema. This film presents three of his early works, displaying his extraordinary talents as actor and filmmaker alike. Keaton stars in The saphead as Bertie Van Alstyne, the spoiled son of a powerful Wall Street financier. Unable to escape the wealth and comfort that are foisted upon him, he pursues individuality in a series of comic misadventures in the speakeasies of New York, at the altar of matrimony, and even on the floor of the American stock exchange. The saphead was instrumental in establishing Keaton as a bona fide star and greatly influenced his formulation of the Buster persona: a lonely, stone-faced soul thwarted by circumstance yet undauntedly resourceful and indefatigable in his struggle for love and survial within a chaotic world."@en
  • "(The Saphead) Bertie, the spoiled son of a powerful Wall Street financier, pursues his individuality in a series of comic misadventures. (The high sign) Buster becomes unwittingly involved in a radical secret society known as the Blinking Buzzards. (One week) Keaton and his bride inherit a do-it-by numbers pre-fab house, only somebody has mixed up the numbers."

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  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Videorecording"@en
  • "Silent"
  • "Short"
  • "DVD-Video discs"@en
  • "Clown comedies"@en
  • "Comedy films"@en
  • "Comedy films"
  • "Shorts"@en
  • "Drama"
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  • "Short films"@en
  • "Speelfilm"
  • "Film adaptations"
  • "Film adaptations"@en
  • "Comedy"
  • "Video recordings"@en
  • "Silent films"@en
  • "Silent films"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Feature films"
  • "Plays"@en
  • "Feature"

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  • "The saphead"@en
  • "The Saphead"@en
  • "The Saphead"
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