Sherlock Jr. (1924)




Buster Keaton - Sherlock Jr.

Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire - Sherlock Jr.

Buster Keaton - Sherlock Jr.




A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.


Books with substantial mentioning of Sherlock Jr.

John White and Sabine Haenni (eds.)
Fifty Key American Films
London and New York, 2009

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Brian J. Robb
Silent cinema
Harpenden, Herts, 2007

John Dileo
100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't
New York, 2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Jim Kline
The Complete Films of Buster Keaton
Secaucus, N.J., 1993

James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts
The Great Detective Pictures
Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1990

Stanley Hochman (editor)
From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara, A National Board of Review Anthology 1920 - 1940
New York, 1982

Daniel Moews
Keaton, The Silent Features Close Up
Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1977

Books with an entry on Sherlock Jr.

Robert B. Connelly
The Motion Picture Guide, Silent Film 1910-1936
Chicago, 1986

Articles with substantial mentioning of Sherlock Jr.

Mark Cousins, The Face of Another, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 12 (December), 2012 pp. 47-50

Charles Warren, Self-Reflection in American Silent Film, in: Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, and Art Simon (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film, Malden, MA, Oxford, Chisester, 2012



Year: 1924
Country: United States
 
IMDb: 0015324
AFI: 12044