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Great campus comedy
Buster Keaton stars as the brainy student who goes to college and tries to win his sweetheart by becoming an athlete. Needless to say, everything he tries (mainly baseball and track & field) he's a flop in. He's finally assigned to the crew team as its coxswain, wins the big race with his ingenuity, and then rescues his girlfriend from a kidnapper by employing all the athletic skills he couldn't muster on the field.

Actually the whole picture is just a series of sporting ineptness sight gags, predictable and fairly obvious, but made marvelous by Keaton's tremendous talent: he makes them very funny to watch. An indication of their greatness is the fact that so many of the routines have been used again and again by others in Hollywood. Silent. Worth a watch.

Yes we are Collegiate!
First a word about 'gray market' DVDs--
Often, transfers are not of the highest quality. The movies themselves are unrestored and rarely pristine (but still watchable), extras are non-existent and inclusion of artwork or liner notes varies by manufacturer.


In COLLEGE (1927), Buster Keaton portrays an anti-athletics bookworm named Ronald who, for love's sake, adopts a totally different philosophy.

At their high school graduation ceremony, Ronald alienates a girl he's sweet on by giving a speech that disparages sports. To try to win Mary's affections, Ronald enrolls in college, where he hopes to become an athlete. He fails miserably however-- an interesting premise, especially in Buster's case, for he was a naturally-gifted baseball player and acrobat capable of immense feats of strength.

Defeated and depressed, Ronald's honors-level grades plummet, so the school's dean gets involved. He sympathetically puts Ronald on the rowing team as coxswain (the man who steers). Mary comes to appreciate all of the young man's efforts, but when Jeff, her jock boyfriend is expelled from school, he takes Mary hostage, hoping she'll get thrown out, too and they can be married. This brings Ronald running to the rescue.


Also recommended: Buster's SHERLOCK, JR. (1924) has some of the most astounding trick photography ever seen. It's the story of a movie projectionist with an overactive imagination. This DVD edition also includes OUR HOSPITALITY (1923)-- a Hatfield/McCoy tale of a young man whose life is endangered when he visits his girlfriend's family.

Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.

(7.3) College (silent-1927) - Buster Keaton/Anne Cornwall/Flora Bramley/Harold Goodwin/Snitz Edwards/Carl Harbaugh/Sam Crawford/Florence Turner/Grant Withers