Three Ages (1923)

Directed by

Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton

Genre

silent film, parody film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 03m

Rated

U

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 141 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man competes with a rival for a woman's love across three different historical eras. He tries to win her through various comic mishaps and physical stunts in each time period.

comediclightheartedwhimsicalplayfulbriskslapstickcheerfulromantic

What happens

Three Ages is a 1923 black-and-white American feature-length silent comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery. The first feature Keaton wrote, directed, produced, and starred in (unlike The Saphead, in which he only acted), Keaton structured the film like three inter-cut short films. While Keaton was a proven success in the short film medium, he had yet to prove himself as a feature-length star. It has been alleged that, had the project flopped, the film would have been broken into three short films, although this has been disputed by film historians who note that neither Keaton nor his associates made this claim in their lifetimes. The structure also worked as a parody of D. W. Griffith's 1916 film Intolerance. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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