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Buster Keaton’s last silent film is a very good comedy, but shows emerging signs of studio meddling and restriction of Keaton’s creative process. Tightly scripted and shrewdly planned to hold down production costs, Spite Marriage (1929) nonetheless still succeeds with audiences. |
 2004 Warner Home Video DVD edition
Buster Keaton Collection (1928-2004), black & white and color, 245 minutes total, not rated, Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, two single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 1, 4.5 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 mono and stereo sound, English language intertitles, English, Spanish and French language subtitles, 15 chapter stops, two plastic trays in cardboard wrap in cardboard slipcase, $39.95. DVD release date: 7 December 2004. Country of origin: USA |
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This collection of Buster Keaton’s first three films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer also includes the modern documentary So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton at MGM by Kevin Brownlow. The quality of the 35mm source materials for Spite Marriage range from very-good to excellent. The film is presented with its original synchronized music score from 1929, well-reproduced in digital mono sound. Also included as supplementary material is audio commentary by Glenn Mitchell, author of A-Z of Silent Film Comedy: An Illustrated Companion on The Cameraman; commentary by John Bengston, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton and Jeffrey Vance, author of Buster Keaton Remembered on Spite Marriage; and photo montages from the silent films.
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