In Buster Keaton’s first feature film as producer/writer/director/star, he riffs on D.W. Griffith’s INTOLERANCE by showing the trials of courtship in three different eras: the prehistoric, ancient Rome, and the then-modern Roaring Twenties.
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In Buster Keaton’s first feature film as producer/writer/director/star, he riffs on D.W. Griffith’s INTOLERANCE by showing the trials of courtship in three different eras: the prehistoric, ancient Rome, and the then-modern Roaring Twenties.