The Paleface **** (1922, Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 5115

This blissful classic 1922 twenty minutes of comedy is a highly amusing, fast-moving, inventive silent short from writer/ co-producer/ co-director/ star Buster Keaton.

It is one of his best – in which he plays a soppy butterfly collector oblivious to the mortal danger he is in when the Indians go on the warpath after evil land and oil speculators have cheated them and they have been given 24 hours to quit their homelands.

Keaton is captured and tied to a stake to be fried after the tribal chief (Joe Roberts) orders his men to kill the first white man they see. Luckily, he can walk around with the stake and move away from the heat!  Later, he joins the tribe as Little Chief Paleface and helps the Indians with their fight.

It is co-directed by Edward F Cline and shot in black and white by Elgin Lessley.

© Derek Winnert 2017 Classic Movie Review 5115

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