Convict 1. 3 (1. 92. The legend of Buster Keaton has been passed down from generation to generation, until he has become the film world's equivalent of Paul Bunyan- -the mythic hero of tall tales. They say a cyclone carried him out of his window when he was an infant. They say he got his name from Harry Houdini himself. They say he walked out of his place in one of vaudeville's top comedy acts to become a Broadway star- -and then walked out of that contract to be a low- paid second banana to film comic Roscoe Arbuckle. They say the first thing he did on Arbuckle's set was to disassemble the camera to see how it worked. None of these is strictly true, mind you, but neither are they wholly false. A myth always travels better when packaged with nuggets of truth. In the version available from Kino, Convict 13 is a strange film. It begins with a golf game between Keaton and a young lady (Sybil Seely); she's a good player, winning applause from the clubhouse, while he spins completely. Keaton gets knocked out while playing golf with his girlfriend and an escaped convict switches clothes with him. He finds himself in prison, but. Watch full length United States movie Convict 13 with subtitles. Subtitled in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian. A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak. Silent comedy short and one of Buster Keaton's first directorial efforts. During a game of golf, Keaton knocks himself. Watch online and Download free Convict 13 - English subtitles - DramaNice American Movie 2013. Learn and talk about Convict 13, and check out Convict 13 on Wikipedia, Youtube, Google News, Google Books, and Twitter on Digplanet. This is a trailer for the movie 'Convict 13'. The music I used is the song 'Old Joe Clark' by Eric Weissberg. The clips I used are all from that movie, which I do not own. Please leave feedback (positive or negative. A description of tropes appearing in Convict 13. In this 1920 short, Buster Keaton's golf game coincides with the hunt for an escaped prisoner. Convict leasing provided prisoner labor to private parties, such as plantation owners and corporations such as the. The convict lease system was gradually phased out in the early 20th century amid negative publicity. What is indisputably true is that Buster Keaton was a visionary artist in two different media. He was at once a peerless physical comedian and a pioneering cineaste, who happened to reach the height of his powers in both of these forms at a propitious moment in history when audiences were hungry for both. Critics routinely compared his films to the works of Rene Magritte, Samuel Beckett, to James Joyce's Ulysses, and T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland. You wouldn't catch him agreeing with that statement. But a look at any one of his 1. Each short is a miracle of comic invention, and while some are better remembered than others, there isn't a clinker in the bunch. Each one exemplifies in different ways what made Keaton the artist that he was. Although Buster is remembered as an acrobatic comic who did his own stunts (Jackie Chan has openly acknowledged the debt he owes to Keaton), his films are even more a statement of metaphysical preoccupations. The world depicted in a Keaton movie is a deceptive landscape of surrealistic transformations, misunderstandings, and implacable tricks of Fate. In some of these films, Buster is caught in a dreamscape, in others he is living a waking nightmare. Throughout it all, he struggles to stay afloat. Buster is spry, quick- witted, and adaptive- -but the universe around him is inconstant, unpredictable and hostile. These are fables of Man vs. World, and the gamesmanship between Keaton's endlessly inventive mind against the machinations of the physical world are addictively entertaining. Convict 1. 3 (1. 92. Buster's shorts to reach theaters, but the third he made - - he was dissatisfied with The High Sign (1. That we can enjoy Convict 1. Then, in the 1. 97. Raymond Rohauer pieced together copies unearthed around the world to reassemble a nearly complete reconstruction. Such an act of reconstitution befits a film that is itself about metamorphosis- -and death. The transformations of the film begin from the very start, as Buster's game of golf starts to devolve into a fishing expedition. Buster's handicap is so extreme, he manages to ricochet a simple putt off a nearby barn and knock himself unconscious with the rebound (the stunt is an act of absolute magic, born of such unlikely precision it must have taken ages to shoot). The sleeping Buster is then discovered by an escaped convict, who swaps clothes with him. When Buster awakes, he finds that literally the clothes make the man. He is now, for all intents and purposes, Convict 1. As a sign of the unlikely irony of his situation, Buster finds he can successfully elude his pursuers by ducking inside a nearby complex- -the prison itself. But Buster has absorbed an important lesson in all of this- -if changing clothes is tantamount to identity theft, then a well- timed costume change can transform him from prisoner to warder, or back again. The trick will be to figure out when is the right time to change identities- -because in the cruel logic of this film, the prison can change its rules faster than Buster can change clothes. There are grim jokes aplenty here- -one key sequence involves the intended execution of Buster Keaton. It takes an especially dark comic imagination to seek laughs in the hanging of an innocent man. Buster Keaton, though, finds a way to make that hangman's noose his ally. Schenck. Director: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton. Screenplay: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton. Cinematography: Elgin Lessley. Cast: Buster Keaton (Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard), Sybil Seely (Socialite, Warden's Daughter), Joe Roberts (The Crazed Prisoner), Edward F. Cline (Hangman), Joe Keaton (Prisoner), Louise Keaton, Harry Keaton (Little guard that Big Joe knocks out, uncredited). BW- 2. 0m. by David Kalat Sources: Buster Keaton and Charles Samuels, Buster Keaton: My Wonderful World of Slapstick. Edward Mc. Pherson, Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat. Gabriella Oldham, Keaton's Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter. Green, Buster Keaton: A Bio- Bibliography. David Robinson, Buster Keaton. Imogen Sara Smith, Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy. Kevin W. Sweeney, Buster Keaton Interviews.
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