Specialty CollectionGenre: SILENT FEATURE FILMS
Description: SILENT COMEDY. BUSTER KEATON STARS AS BERTIE VAN ALSTYNE, THE SPOILED AND NOT-SO-BRIGHT SON OF A POWERFUL WALL STREET MOGUL. UNABLE TO ESCAPE THE WEALTH AND COMFORT THAT ARE THRUST UPON HIM, HE SEARCHES FOR HIS OWN INDICIDUALITY IN A COMIC SERIES OF MISADVENTURES THAT RANGE FROM THE SPEAKEASIES OF NEW YORK TO THE MATRIMONIAL ALTAR AND EVEN ON TO THE VAUNTED FLOOR OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE. A LONELY STONE-FACED SOUL THWARTED BY CIRCUMSTANCE BUT INDEFATIGABLE IN HIS STRUGGLE FOR LOVE AND SURVIVAL WITHING A CHAOTIC WORLD. WITH WILLIAM H. CRANE, CAROL HOLLOWAY, EDWARD CONNELLY, IRVING CUMMINGS, AND BEULAH BOOKER. THE OLD NICK OF THE STREET, MARK TURNER: BROKER BERTIE'S LOVE, A FAILED GREETING, THE MORNINGNEWS, THE LAST CHECK, HUMBLE QUARTERS, A CHANGE OF WEDDING PLAN. DEATH OF A CEREMONY, VISIT TO THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
