Here are five things we learned from The Great Buster. After one such pratfall, the story is that audience member Harry Houdini exclaimed that he took “some buster,” or tumble. Fatty Arbuckle got him started in picturesRoscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle invited Keaton to watch him shoot some two-reel short comedies, and Keaton had an epiphany. To distance itself from him, the film company was renamed Buster Keaton Productions. His output was prodigiousIn 1921, the year of the first of his three marriages, Keaton released a half-dozen two-reel comedies.

Source: National Post November 22, 2018 17:02 UTC