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Buster Keaton: Ed Wynn
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This all-star charity revue stars Buster Keaton, Ed Wynn and Jimmy Durante with a host of celebrities. Buster and Ed crash a television studio and are chased by security police throughout the back lot where they spoil the filming of various TV shows in progress of stars like James Garner, Ralph Edwards, Jack Lemmon, Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Jackie Cooper, Eartha Kitt, Nanette Fabray , Fabian, Roger Williams, David Janssen, Bert Convy, Fritz Feld, Rosemary Clooney, Abby Dalton, The Limelighters, Dorothy Provine, and others. Great fun as these two comics run rings around the studio cops!
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Keaton ... appeared on Ed Wynn's variety show. At the age of 55, he successfully recreated one of the stunts of his youth, in which he propped one foot onto a table, then swung the second foot up next to it, and held the awkward position in midair for a moment before crashing to the stage floor. I've Got a Secret host Garry Moore recalled, "I asked (Keaton) how he did all those falls, and he said, 'I'll show you'. He opened his jacket and he was all bruised. So that's how he did it — it hurt — but you had to care enough not to care."
Synopsis: Mobster Louie the Wolf (Eddie Featherstone) sends an unsuspecting handyman (Buster Keaton) to gather up the collection money owed him, hoping the sap will get rubbed out by Slugger McGraw (Matt McHugh), a rival gangster. Keaton... innocently escapes all the perils that whiz about himRead More
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