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Battling Butler

192677 minUnited States
Comedy
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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
76:57
Subtitles
English

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Synopsis

A wealthy, sheltered young man takes a camping trip intended to make him tougher and falls for a mountain girl. His valet claims that he is a famous boxer with the same name to impress her family. Maintaining the invention becomes increasingly difficult when the real fighter appears and the supposed champion is expected to enter the ring.

Cast

DirectorsBuster Keaton

Inspirations

Buster Keaton adapts a stage musical into a largely physical comedy of mistaken identity. The contrast between a pampered amateur and a professional fighter gives the romantic deception a concrete and increasingly painful cost.

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