Charles Riesner

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1) Meet the people

Pub. Date

2009

Language

English

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Playwright Swanee Swanson insists Broadway star Julie Hampton must work at a shipyard before she can star in the play he's written about the Rosie the Riveters.

2) Steamboat Bill, Jr

Pub. Date

[2001]

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None

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Features the work of film comedian Buster Keaton, showing a variety of his early, silent films.

3) Steamboat Bill, Jr: Convict 13 ; Daydreams

Series

Art of Buster Keaton

Pub. Date

2001.

Edition

Digitally remastered versions.

Language

English

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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928): Follows the adventures of a spoiled young man forced by his father to learn the ropes of riverboating. Convict 13 (1920): Keaton struggles for survival inside prison walls. Daydreams (1922): Keaton tries to find his niche by trying out various professions.

4) Go West: The big store

Pub. Date

2004

Language

English

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In Go West: It's 1870 and the Marx Brothers are out to get rich in Dead Man's Gulch. In The Big store: The Brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging.

5) City lights

Series

Criterion collection volume 680

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None

Formats

Blu-ray, DVD

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The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...