Sherlock, Jr. (1924)

Original title

Sherlock Jr.

Directed by

Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton

Genre

comedy film, action film, silent film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

44 min

Rated

NR

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1,176 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A movie projectionist dreams of being a great detective. He tries to win back the woman he loves after being framed for a crime.

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What happens

Sherlock Jr. is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton and written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, and Joseph A. Mitchell. It features Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, and Ward Crane. In 1991, Sherlock Jr. was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2000, the American Film Institute, as part of its AFI 100 Years... series, ranked the film #62 in its AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs. David Thomson calls it "a breakthrough. It is as if a filmmaker had at last learned the point of the whole thing." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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