Nicholas Van Alstyne is the richest man in New York, but he is very disappointed by the behaviour of his son Bertie (Buster Keaton) who goes out every night and plays without showing any interest in work. In reality, Bertie thinks he will please the girl of his dreams, but all he will get is to be disinherited by his father…
One of the most unjustly forgotten films by the ‘comedian who never laughed’ (by contract he could not smile), one of the giants of comic cinema, capable of ‘achieving the absolute by simplification, of acting without acting’.
actors: Burster Keaton – Bertie Van Alstyne, Carol Holloway – Rose Turner, William H. Crane – Nicholas Van Alstyne, Irving Cummings – Mark Turner
script: June Mathis
photography: Harold Wenstrom
scenography: F.H. Webster
other titles: THE SAPHEAD, CE CRÉTIN DE MALEC
color: Bianco & Nero
taken from: Play 'The Henrietta' by Bronson Howard
production company: METRO PICTURES CORPORATION
script: June Mathis
photography: Harold Wenstrom
scenography: F.H. Webster
other titles: THE SAPHEAD, CE CRÉTIN DE MALEC
color: Bianco & Nero
taken from: Play 'The Henrietta' by Bronson Howard
production company: METRO PICTURES CORPORATION