Spite Marriage (1929)

Directed by

Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton

Genre

comedy film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 16m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 64 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man falls for an actress and ends up marrying her on a whim. He tries to win her over with clumsy stunts and physical comedy.

lightheartedslapstickplayfulfreneticabsurdnostalgicgentle

What happens

Spite Marriage is a 1929 American silent comedy film co-directed by Buster Keaton and Edward Sedgwick and starring Keaton and Dorothy Sebastian. It is the second film Keaton made for MGM and his last silent film, although he had wanted it to be a "talkie" or full sound film. While the production has no recorded dialogue, it does feature an accompanying synchronized score and recorded laughter, applause, and other sound effects. Keaton later wrote gags for some up-and-coming MGM stars like Red Skelton, and recycled many gags from Spite Marriage, some shot-for-shot, for Skelton's 1943 film I Dood It. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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