I'll be the first to state it: MGM's vehicles for Buster were crappy. But insane curiosity provoked me to buy three of them, and record another. You have to admit it's a unique novelty in itself to hear a silent star *talking*. I actually like his voice, though others have said that it was too gruff for his gentle on-screen persona. But it can't be blamed for his lack of success at MGM. I'd rather not think about it.
Anyhow, the main idea being that I like his voice, and don't like the movies, I've set up some wavs for my own amusement and maybe that of other BK fans. Tada!
Some were recorded via the complicated process of holding the mike up to the TV's speaker, and aren't the greatest quality. But the ones with a next to them indicate that they've been recorded correctly.
Timoleon tells off Eleanor Espere, who would marry him for his money... "I am fully aware of the fact that the events of the last few minutes have not been of a strictly conventional order. Therefore I think it necessary to clarify a situation which otherwise might be filled with doubt. This I will do through the medium of a much quoted but pungeant phrase: nuts to you." (431k)
Then tackles Pansy Peets with a smooch, which was kind of cute.
THE END.
Buster Keaton on working with the Marx Brothers: "It was an event when you could get all three of them on the set at the same time. The minute you started a picture with the Marx brothers you hired three assistant directors. One for each Marx brother. Y'had two of em, while you went to look for the third one and the first two would disappear.... They never worried what the next set-up was gonna be or what- the routine or anything else - sez - 'We'll ad-lib it when we get there'." (430k)
next to them indicate that they've been recorded correctly.
