Buster Keaton's comic masterpiece SHERLOCK JR. is not only one of the funniest movies of all time, filled with staggering stunts, amazing sight gags, and mind-boggling cinematic tricks, but it's also a brilliant meditation on the nature of the film medium itself, perhaps the best ever made.
A movie projectionist (Buster Keaton), who's studying to be a detective by reading a how-to book, wants to buy an expensive box of candy for his girlfriend, but only has one dollar, so he buys a cheap box and changes the number one to a four on the box. He goes to her house and gives her the candy, then his rival (Ward Crane) sneaks into the house and steals her father's pocke...
Released:
1924
Rated:
NR
Length:
44 mins