Parlour, Bedroom & Bath

Starring:Buster Keaton
Studio: Alpha Video
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

GREAT CHANCE FOR A STICKY BEAK
Damn you MGM
charming period piece
Poor Buster is right!
Poor Keaton

Parlour, Bedroom & Bath
Starring: Sidney Bracey , Edward S. Brophy , Dorothy Christy , Cliff Edwards , and Sally Eilers
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000640XPM
Release Date: 2004-11-23

Customer Reviews:

GREAT CHANCE FOR A STICKY BEAK.......2007-01-10

Parlour, Bedroom and Bath is certainly no great Keaton moment on film. The main interest here is that miserly MGM trying to save money took up Keaton's offer to use his house in Beverly Hills as the house in the movie. And you get to look up real close, you see the garden furniture and beautiful steps leading to the pool, which have now been separated into two different housing lots I believe. The internal shots were not filmed in The Italian Villa, but rather back at the studio.

I always get the opinion that MGM saw Keaton as romantic light comedy player, sort of Cary Grant perhaps. Keaton on the otherhand though I am sure not unaware of his attractiveness to the opposite sex, would rather have just been allowed to be the comic genius is certainly was.

The premise is that Keaton who is tacking up advertising outside the Italian Villa is run over by Reginald Denny, who is a guest staying at the house. Keaton is taken back to the house to recover. Denny wanting to marry the younger of two sisters who refuses to marry him until her eldest and so far spinster sister marries first, decides to tell everyone that Keaton is in fact a great lover. On hearing this the eldest sister suddenly becomes interested and decides that she is to marry Keaton. Keaton's character is certainly no great lover and finally the elder sister finds that out herself, and the marriage is off. Denny can't have that and decides that he is going to teach Reggie to be the great lover, enter Charlotte Greenwood. This leads to some funny and some not so funny moments. I do like the chase scene towards the end of the movie and the bit where Keaton and Greenwood are standing behind a pole.

Keaton borrows from One Week with one of the scenes when he and Joan Peters are in a car (I did read that he got to play around with the car for a couple of weeks before the movie-it is such a great looking car too).

If you like farce you will like this, I've watched it perhaps three times and I always enjoy it, just that you know Keaton was capable of so much better.

Damn you MGM.......2005-09-17

Yeah the reviews below are right... poor keaton.. This was really really really sad to watch. If you are a fan of Buster you will know that this wasn't his doing and full responsibilty for this incredibly crappy movie is MGM. If you ever get your hands on it just burn it and run away.

charming period piece.......2005-02-17

I don't know why the other reviewers knocked the movie so much. True it's not "the general" or "steamboat bill" but it is a funny and enjoyable comedy of manners typical of the era. double-jointed charlotte greenwood is a real hoot trying to teach shy buster how to be a passionate lover.

Poor Buster is right!.......2005-01-03

For any Buster Keaton fan, this is painful to watch. You feel sorry for him, and wonder how anyone connected with it thought it was funny at all. Keaton has little to do in this. Extremely unfunny attempt at farce. I'm glad I saw it on Turner Classic Movies, for free. They should burn it.

Poor Keaton.......2004-10-29

Poor Keaton. This third talkie is not a Keaton film. Is another thing, is a insipid MGM comedy.

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