Buster Keaton

Kathryn McGuire

Joe Keaton

Erwin Connelly

Ward Crane

Doris Deane

Christine Francis

George Davis

Kewpie Morgan

Steve Murphy

John Patrick

Betsy Ann Hisle

Ford West

Clyde Bruckman

Joseph M. Schenck

Clare West

Byron Houck

Elgin Lessley

Fred Gabourie

Jean C. Havez

Joseph A. Mitchell

Walter C. Reed

Ernie Orsatti

Action

Comedy

Mystery

Sherlock Jr.

Metro Pictures Corporation

United States of America

No Language

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What a superbly intricate piece of comedic cinema this is. Keaton is a down-at-heel cinema projectionist who fancies himself as a budding "Sherlock Holmes". When a love-rival manages to frame him for pinching his (rather fickle) girlfriend's father's watch his life seems to have lost all purpose... Only when he returns to his cinema and runs that evening's movie does he doze off and dream his way into the film - this time as a brilliant detective calmly dealing with poison, explosives and dastardly cunning plots as he effortlessly solves the crime - some stolen pearls - and gets the girl! The story flows perfectly; the timing precise, the illusions almost circus-like but sophisticatedly so; no slapstick swinging planks and 8-foot puddles; just some intelligent humour and the odd, clever, use of special effects that create some sympathy for the initially rather pathetic hero! As much as to the imagery, this owes much to the score which the Club Foot Orchestra deliver setting a great pace for the shenanigans on screen.

SHERLOCK JR (1924) - Trailer

Sherlock Jr.

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