Seven Chances **** (1925, Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards) – Classic Movie Review 4532

Producer/ director/ star Buster Keaton’s clever and hilarious, classic silent comedy showcases a stressed-out Buster as nearly bankrupt financial broker Jimmie Shannon, who has to find himself a spouse within a few hours to receive a $7 million inheritance in his grandfather’s will.

Written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean C Havez and Joseph A Mitchell, and based on the play by David Belasco and Roi Cooper Megrue, it is full of great action gags, nail-biting chase sequences and big belly laughs. Above all, as performer, Keaton is working at near his finest form.

T Roy Barnes was born on 11 August 1880 in Lincolnshire, England.

Also in the cast are T Roy Barnes as Jimmie’s partner Billy Meekin, Ruth Dwyer, Snitz Edwards, Frankie Raymond, Erwin Connelly, Jules Cowles, Constance Talmadge and Jean Arthur.

It is black and white, but the opening sequence is in two-strip Technicolor.

It was remade as The Bachelor in 1999 with Chris O’Donnell and Renée Zellweger.

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