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Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin. In what would be considered the peak of Keaton’s slapstick comedy powers, the legendary actor plays a hopeless newspaper cameraman in Manhattan who is determined to impress his new boss and his crush at the office. This new 4K digital restoration includes a new score by composer Timothy Brock, who conducts the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, audio commentary from 2004 featuring author Glenn Mitchell, Spite Marriage, Keaton’s following feature for MGM with a 2004 commentary by film historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance, Time Travelers, a new documentary by Daniel Raim that features interviews with Bengtson and film historian Marc Wanamaker, So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM, a 2004 documentary by film historians Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird, new interview with author James L. Neibaur, an essay by film critic Imogen Sara Smith and more. Directed by Edward Sedgwick. Silent with musical score. 1928/b&w/76 min/NR/fullscreen.