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Show Donald O'Connor At Comic Best In 'The Buster Keaton Story' y.::::.-.-.::-. 1 f .-.V.-.'.v. s , : 1 ' J I : 1 ,s ' ' ' - ? . i . :-Nv 1 ' , ' I 1 5 1 I " ) (Review) The richly human, sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious, story of one of the great comedians comedi-ans of our time, "The Buster Keaton Story," open Friday at the Southeast Theatre, and a wonderfully wonder-fully rewarding movie it is. The life and times of a vaudeville vaude-ville and silent-films figure the whole world knew and loved, Paramount's VistaVision film of the rocketing rise and dramatic fall of the master of slapstick pantomime is a song-, dance- and laugh-filled saga that emerges as an epic of one of the most glamorous glam-orous and colorful periods in entertainment en-tertainment history. The picture opens with Buster a small boy, the third member of his parents' vaudeville act, living the precarious existence of a bottom-of-the-bill performer - a revealing insight into what made Keaton run. Thereafter, the superbly sup-erbly talented Donald O'Connor takes over as the adult Keaton and in a brillant performance takes Buster to the heights and down again, first as a vaudeville headliner then a rising and arrived ar-rived screen star and finally a luminary dimmed by the blaze of talking pictures. There is a triangle in the story, a very touching one. Involved in it are Ann Blyth and Rhonda Fleming-Miss Blyth starring as the petite and appealing young wife Donald has no time for, and Miss Fleming guest-starred as the In baggy pants, flat hat and dead-pan, Donald O'Connor portrays por-trays the master clown of the silent films in "The Buster Keaton Story," due Friday and Saturday at the Stardust Theatre In VistaVision. gorgeous siren who first helps him squander a fortune with riotous living and then drops him for a title. The unfolding story of Miss Blyth's courage, patience and final daring in bringing the once-great star back from the depths ia a . warm and satisfying one. |
