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The Saphead
USA 1920
produced by
John Golden, Marcus Loew, Winchell Smith for Metro Pictures
directed by Herbert Blanché, Winchell Smith
starring Buster Keaton, Irving Cummings, Carol Holloway, Beulah Booker, William H.Crane, Edward Alexander, Edward Connelly, Edward Jobson, Odette Taylor, Jack Livingston
screenplay by June Mathis, based on the novel The New Henrietta by Victor Mapes, Winchell Smith and on the play The Henrietta by Bronson Howard
silent
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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On the day he is to marry Agnes (Beulah Booker), the ward of his father
(William H.Crane), Bertie (Buster Keaton) is tricked by his brother-in-law
into admitting to an affair he never had, and the woman in question was
actually Mark's lover. The wedding is of course cancelled and his father
throws him out. Which opens the way for Mark of course to ruin Bertie's
father's business in order to take it over. Everything seems lost already,
but to get his mind off things, Bertie has decided to spend a day at the
stock exchange, where he had just bought himself a seat, and rather by
accident he saves dad's business without even knowing it. In the end, the
villain gets his just desserts and Bertie gets the girl. Buster
Keaton's first feature film is in many aspects an atypical one: It's an
ensemble piece rather than a Keaton-starrer, it is based on a convoluted
plot rather than the sttraight-to-the-point narratives Keaton has (later)
become famous for, and apart from the finale (taking place at of all
places the stock exchange), the whole film is almost stunt-free. All of
this of course doesn't make The Saphead a bad film, it's actually
an ok, even likeable comedy - yet it's also rather pointless, and you will
probably have forgotten it in a mere few days time.
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