DVD
Seven chances
Call Number
- DVD COMEDY (CEN)
Edition
Ultimate edition.
Languages
Silent film with English intertitles and original music scores.
Performers
Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer, T. Roy Barnes.
Publication Information
[New York, NY] : Kino Classics, [2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (56 minutes) : sound, color tint and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Jimmie is an eligible young bachelor who must marry by 7:00 p.m. in order to receive a $7 million inheritance. After bungling a proposal to his longtime sweetheart, he embarks on a desperate quest for a bride. He experiences a hilarious series of rejections until a newspaper announcement of Jimmie's predicament provides him with more fiancées than he can handle.
Notes
Title from container.
"Mastered from 35mm materials preserved by the Library of Congress"--Container.
Based on the play by Roi Cooper Megrue.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1925.
Special features: Audio commentary and conversation by film historians Ken Gordon and Bruce Lawton ; A brideless groom (1947, 17 minutes), a Three Stooges short that recycles the premise of Seven chances, co-written by Keaton collaborator Clyde Bruckman ; How a French nobleman got a wife through the New York Herald personal columns, a 1904 Edison short directed by Edwin S. Porter ; visual essay on the film's locations, by Silent echoes author John Bengtson ; analysis of the Technicolor sequence by film historian Eric Grayson ; gallery of production stills.