Byline: CARRIE RICKEY Knight-Ridder
Undersea with a swordfish poised to gore him, Buster Keaton is the guy who grabs its cousin and gracefully duels his challenger to defeat.
At the office with nowhere to hang his porkpie hat, Buster Keaton is the guy who picks up brush and pigment, paints a hook on the wall and thereupon gravely hangs his chapeau.
In his dressing room, primping before the mirror, teasing tie and hat to maximum rakishness, Buster Keaton is the guy who then strides gamely through the looking glass and into the infinite possibilities of motion pictures.
It figures that the man who was both film's greatest magician and metaphysician was born in 1895, the same year as the movies. In honor of the late comic's 100th birthday on Oct. 4, Kino Video is bringing us three boxed sets of the master's masterpieces. Ten features and 20 shorts in all.
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