Buster Keaton at MGM Triple Feature [DVD]
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Release Date:03/29/2012
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Based on the stage comedy by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan (previously filmed in 1920), Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a curious mixture of all that was good and everything that was bad in Buster Keaton's talkie features. Keaton plays Reginald Irving, a dimwitted bill-poster who finds himself the pawn in a scheme cooked up by wealthy Jeffrey Haywood (Reginald Denny). It seems that Jeffrey will not be permitted to marry Virginia Embrey (Sally Eilers) until a suitable husband is found for Virginia's older sister Angelica (Dorothy Christy). Since Angelica has rejected all the available suitors, Jeffrey schemes to offer Reginald as an eligible mate. First, however, he has to transform our dopey hero into a gentleman -- and a great lover. Somehow or other, poor Reginald innocently ends up in a compromising situation involving vampish Polly Hathaway (Charlotte Greenwood) and the very married Nita Leslie (Joan Peers) at a posh no-tell hotel. Keaton is permitted a few choice pantomimic moments in Parlor Bedroom and Bath, notably his scenes with the aggressive Charlotte Greenwood and a spectacular sight gag "borrowed" from his 1920 silent classic One Week. On the whole, however, Keaton is lost in a sea of unfunny dialogue and tired farcical situations -- a not untypical pitfall of his MGM talkies. Long unavailable due to legal complications, Parlor, Bedroom and Bath can be purchased from any of the public-domain video companies proliferating in the U.S. (Incidentally, that baronial "upstate New York" mansion in the film's early scenes was actually Buster Keaton's Beverly Hills home)~Hal Erickson
Director
- Edward Sedgwick
Writer
- Richard Schayer
Cast
- Buster KeatonReginald Irving
- Charlotte GreenwoodPolly Hathaway
- Reginald DennyJeffery Haywood
- Dorothy ChristyAngelica Embrey
- Joan PeersNita Leslie
- Sally EilersVirginia Embrey
- Cliff EdwardsBellhop
- Natalie MoorheadLeila Crofton
- Edward S. BrophyDetective
- Wally MerrillFrederick Leslie
- Sidney BraceyButler
- Eugene Pallette
- Paul Morgan
- Françoise Rosay
- Wolfgang Zilzer
Crew
- Buster KeatonProducer
- Leonard SmithCinematographer
- William LeVanwayEditor
- Cedric GibbonsArt Director
Details
- GenreComedy
- SubgenreComedy of Manners
- TitleParlor, Bedroom and Bath
- Countries ProducedUnited States
- Duration73 minutes
- Year of Release1931
- Product TagsDVD
- FormatDVD
- Program TypeMovie
- Sound Featuresmonaural
- Screen FormatBlack & White
- Aspect Ratio1.37:1
- LanguageEnglish
- Region Code0
- StudioWarner Bros. Digital Distribution
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- Product NameBuster Keaton at MGM Triple Feature [DVD]
- UPC883316456217
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