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Sherlock, Jr., also titled Sherlock Jr., is a 1924 American film directed by Buster Keaton, released on 17 April 1924 and running 45 minutes. It was produced by Metro Pictures Corporation and Buster Keaton Productions, and its status is listed as Released.
The story is a slapstick comedy involving an amateur detective and a pickpocket, with a setting that includes a jungle, and it was shot in black and white.
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8.0A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
Cast
- Buster Keaton as Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.
- Kathryn McGuire as The Girl
- Joe Keaton as The Girl's Father / Man on Film Screen
- Erwin Connelly as The Hired Man / The Butler
- Ward Crane as The Local Sheik / The Villain
- Doris Deane as Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema (uncredited)
Themes
- pickpocket
- amateur detective
- slapstick comedy
- jungle
- black and white
- motorcycle
- false accusations
- silent film
- projectionist
- booby trap
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Buster Keaton
- Written by
- Jean Havez Joseph A. Mitchell Clyde Bruckman
- Produced by
- Joseph M. Schenck Buster Keaton
- Starring
- Buster Keaton
- Cinematography
- Elgin Lessley Byron Houck
- Edited by
- Buster Keaton
- Music by
- Club Foot Orchestra (1999), Craig Marks (2014), Timothy Brock (2015), Robert Israel (2020)
- Production company
- Metro Pictures Corporation
- Distributed by
- Metro-Goldwyn Pictures
- Release date
- April 21, 1924 ( 1924-04-21 )
- Running time
- 45 minutes (5 reels)
- Country
- United States
- Language
- Silent (English intertitles )
- Box office
- $448,337
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- short film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- silent film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Director
- Roscoe Arbuckle
- Cast member
- Kewpie Morgan
- Producer
- Buster Keaton
- Production company
- Metro Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Elgin Lessley
- Duration
- 44
- FilmAffinity ID
- 643373
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Sherlock jr poster.jpg
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- publication date
- 1924-05-00
- film editor
- Buster Keaton
- title
- Sherlock Jr.
- costume designer
- Clare West
- distributed by
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 4:3
- color
- black-and-white
- language of work or name
- English language
- copyright status
- public domain
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- set in environment
- movie theater
- review score
- 86%
- box office
- 448337
- Commons category
- Sherlock Jr.
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Encyclopedic overview
Sherlock Jr. is a 1924 American silent comedy film starring and directed by Buster Keaton and written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, and Joseph A. Mitchell. It features Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, and Ward Crane.
In 1991, Sherlock Jr. was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2000, the American Film Institute, as part of its AFI 100 Years... series, ranked the film #62 in its AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs. David Thomson calls it "a breakthrough. It is as if a filmmaker had at last learned the point of the whole thing."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sherlock, Jr.” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.