Buster Keaton plays a lovestruck tailor who's infatuated with an actress in SPITE MARRIAGE, an enjoyable, but relatively minor, entry in Keaton's oeuvre that was his last silent movie.
Elmer Edgemont (Buster Keaton) is a meek pants-presser who's in love from afar with stage actress Trilby Drew (Dorothy Sebastian). He follows her around town and attends every performance of the Civil War drama in which she's acting, wearing a tuxedo which he's borrowed from one of his wealthy
customers. Elmer gets a chance to portray a soldier in the play when he wanders backstage and one of the actors runs out because he's being pursued by the police, but he destroys the sets an...
Released:
1929
Rated:
NR
Length:
76 mins