July 10, 2011
The Cameraman
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Title: The Cameraman
Year: 1928
Length: 69 minutes
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Writers: Clyde Bruckman & Lew Lipton, with Richard Schayer and Joseph Farnham
Starring: Buster Keaton
With: Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey, Harry Gribbon
Music: Arthur Barnow
Cinematography: Reggie Lanning, Elgin Lessley
Editing: Hugh Wynn
I saw it: on video (rented from Greencine), yesterday
Synopsis: a photographer tries to become a newsreel cameraman to impress a girl
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Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good, ). Lots of funny routines. And there's a monkey. A stabbing monkey. It's not easy to upstage Buster Keaton, but I guess a monkey with a knife will do it.
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