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Sherlock Jr.
Directed by
Buster Keaton
Not Rated
1924
45m
Comedy
,
Mystery
,
and more
8.1
86%
95%
8.0
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A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
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Cast of Sherlock Jr.
Buster Keaton
Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr. / Director / Producer / Editor
Kathryn McGuire
Girl
Joe Keaton
Girl's Father / Man on Film Screen
Erwin Connelly
Hired Man / Butler
Ward Crane
Sheik / Villain
Doris Deane
Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema (uncredited)
Christine Francis
Candy Store Girl (uncredited)
George Davis
Conspirator (uncredited)
Kewpie Morgan
Conspirator (uncredited)
Steve Murphy
Conspirator (uncredited)
John Patrick
Conspirator (uncredited)
Betsy Ann Hisle
Little Girl (uncredited)
Ford West
Theatre Manager / Gillette (uncredited)
Clyde Bruckman
Screenplay
Joseph M. Schenck
Producer
Fred Gabourie
Art Direction
Byron Houck
Director Of Photography
Elgin Lessley
Director Of Photography
Clare West
Costume Design
Walter C. Reed
Assistant Director
Sherlock Jr. Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Taylor
As the small town motion-picture projectionist who is studying to be a detective on the side, Keaton is seen to great advantage. The picture seems to be funnier than Our Hospitality, measuring well up to the standard of Three Ages.
Billboard
Herman Shumlin
It is packed with laughable incidents, ridiculous tricks that will cause roars of real belly-laughs, and will send them home just a bit ashamed at having laughed so much, just as it did this reviewer.
Detroit Free Press
Roy Ellarcotte
[Sherlock, Jr.] is about the best thing this "straight face" comedian has done.
LIFE
Robert E. Sherwood
Like all Keaton comedies Sherlock, Jr., is constructed with amazing ingenuity.
New York Times
Mordaunt Hall
There is an extremely good comedy which will give you plenty of amusement, so long as you permit Mr. Keaton to glide into his work with his usual deliberation.
Variety
Fred Schader
This Buster Keaton feature length comedy is about as unfunny as a hospital operating room... The chances are that this picture will turn about the lowest gross of any of the Keaton's that Metro has thus far handled.
Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald)
J. Ray Murray
It hasn't the pep in the early footage -- a thing so necessary in a feature length comedy -- and lacks sprightly gags to hold it together. Rather surprised, too, that Keaton resorted to the old dream sequence to pad it out. He is usually more original.
Exhibitor's Trade Review
Michael L. Simmons
Pleasurable entertainment for the family; laughs galore for the case-hardened. Fun for young and old alike. It's just the prettiest piece of feature comedy work the writer has seen in many weeks of movie-going.
Moving Picture World
C.S. Sewell
Right here we want to say that we never saw so many gags and such original ones as are unfolded in Sherlock, Jr. It is an unusually cleverly constructed comedy film and Buster and his gag men deserve credit for their ingenuity.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Martin Dickstein
The result, is seven or eight reels of asininity, spread out thin to cover the distance, with Just about enough really, funny incidents to make it a screaming two-reeler.
Christian Science Monitor
Ralph Flint
His third [feature] lacks the continuity and adroitness of the earlier pictures, albeit there are hilarious novelties sprinkled through the latter part of the film.
Photoplay
Shadow Stage
This is by no means Keaton's most hilarious offering, but it is short, snappy and amusing. Comedies are like oases in a celluloid world, rare and refreshing, and you don't want to miss Buster with his immobile face and unique composure in his new setting.
New York Post
New York Post Staff
Keaton is about as funny as we have ever seen him. Later on the story slumps a bit, but he manages to pick it up and end it with a loud and resounding bang of laughter.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Inquirer Staff
A rollicking comedy.
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
If you haven't seen it, you're going to have to.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
Genius is offering a metacommentary on film form and pulling off a banana-peel gag in the same movie...
New York Daily News
Mabel McElliott
Lots of people must find Buster's conduct laughable, else he would not continue making comedies... I have not found one yet. Therefore, Buster must have charm. Perhaps he is caviar to the general, and I am one of the latter class.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Keaton's appreciation of the formal paradoxes of the medium is astounding; his observations on the relationship between film and the subconscious are groundbreaking and profound. And it's a laugh riot, too.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A master of movement and stillness, Keaton developed a comedy style that was as intellectual as it was physical, and this small gem shows us why he's as purely American a film genius as the motion pictures have produced.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
The unexpected, fantastic dream situations lend themselves to some remarkable trick effects, including one in which Buster walks right out of an audience and into a picture on the screen.
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