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Sherlock Jr. is a 1924 American silent comedy film starring and directed by Buster Keaton and written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, and Joseph A. Mitchell. It features Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, and Ward Crane.
Jun 25, 2024 · Disgraced, a dejected Buster dreams that he is the famous, dashing detective Sherlock Jr., who retrieves a stolen necklace of pearls. Apparently a 1922 John Barrymore film, Sherlock Holmes, inspired the change in title.
Sherlock Jr. is able to escape, grabbing the pearls and jumping through the window (and the paper drum). He is now dressed in a woman's wardrobe, and as the Sheik's henchmen look around, the detective is nowhere to be seen. One of the men begins to suspect the woman, and makes chase.
Aug 29, 2024 · At the end of Sherlock Jr., Buster awakens from his cinematic dreamscape and finds himself back in the projection booth. His girl comes in to the booth — all is forgiven and resolved — and ...
Jan 21, 2013 · Sherlock Jr should be complex given its narrative, yet the transition from reality to dream world is relatively seamless. By staging most of the narrative within a character’s dream, Keaton is given license to instil a number of ‘gags’ which would seem implausible within a narrative set in reality.
Anticipating Jean-Luc Godard and postmodernism by decades, the detective fantasy Sherlock Jr. largely takes place inside the head of a hapless and wronged cinema projectionist (Keaton) who – in a sequence that’s a technical marvel to this day – dreams himself into the screen only to be flummoxed by the film’s editing.
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He became master sleuth Sherlock Jr. and solved the crime of thievery by proving that his rival stole the watch. However, in the real-world version of the story, the Girl was the one who had unearthed the truth and had returned to him at the end of the film to apologize for her false accusation.
