Sidewalks Of New York

Simplistic comedy features Keaton as a wealthy apartment building owner. Though a rich playboy, Keaton falls for one of his tenement residents, played by Page. Keaton, a silent genius, muddles through this early talkie with little success. The story was cooked up by no less than four writers; the two directors had previously done short canine comedies. (White would go on to work with the vastly overrated Three Stooges.) Keaton's problem was creative frustration compounded by alcohol. He was a victim of the new technology of sound and of studio executives who didn't understand their star. Stripped of creative freedom and control, Keaton began his downward spiral her...