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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 ...
The three-age system is the periodization of human prehistory (with some overlap into the historical periods in a few regions) into three time-periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, although the concept may also refer to other tripartite divisions of historic time periods.
Three Ages: Directed by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton. With Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Joe Roberts. The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.
Aug 31, 2023 · And yet Three Ages contains so many familiar and classic scenes in what is essentially a three-part romcom – not least the sequence in which Keaton jumps from one tall building to another, misses it, and then hurtles through three awnings to the street below.
While Intolerance is a major film in cinema history, with may innovations in cinematography and narrative structure, Three Ages is a light comedy which is mostly remembered because it is Buster Keaton's first feature film and because of successful visual gags.
In The Three Ages, Stone Age Buster, who is dubbed The Faithful Worshipper of Beauty, does the same to defeat Wallace Beery, called The Villain, during a contest between the two men who challenge each other with clubs to vie for the hand of Beauty.
Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being covered here wouldn't exist. One hundred years after he helmed his first feature as a director, Three Ages (1923), the world of cinema is once again abuzz with Buster Keaton fever.
Three Ages (1923) Buster Keaton and Edward Francis Cline. related portals: Comedy film, Films with historical settings, Silent film. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item. The following is a transcription of a film.
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones.
Jul 15, 2010 · Three Ages is Buster Keaton's first feature length film as a director. It is also one of the few silent films outside the ones he made with Fatty Arbuckle, in which he has a famous co-star, Wallace Beery. It is a landmark film in his career, but not actually his best.
