Video – Free Halloween movie : The Haunted House

Publié le 14 octobre 202329 octobre 2024 par ANDRE Vanessa

**Un film intitulé ‘The haunted house’ : vous pouvez le regarder en cliquant sur le lien ci-dessous … Enjoy ;)!**

Vous connaissez sans doute Charlie Chaplin mais avez-vous déjà entendu parler de l’acteur Buster Keaton?

Acteur célèbre du cinéma muet américain, il marqua les années 1920 dans des comédies puis connut de nouveau le succès dans les années 40 et 50.

L’histoire en bref : Buster Keaton incarne un employé de banque qui se retrouve involontairement mêlé à une histoire de braquage. Accusé à tort, Buster se réfugie dans une maison réputée hantée. Au même moment, une troupe de comédiens s’installe dans la maison, suivie de près par les braqueurs… Les quiproquos s’enchaînent et on finit par se demander si cette maison n’est pas véritablement hantée!

Watch the movie on : The Haunted House on archives.org
(for educational purposes only)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 😉 !

PLOT

Buster Keaton plays a bank clerk.

He does not know that the manager at the bank and his gang are planning on pulling off a robbery and hiding in an old house which they have rigged up with traps and special effects to make it appear to be haunted.

After being falsely accused of being the bank robber, Buster escapes to the local ‘haunted house’.

A rather unsuccessful troupe of actors from a theatre production take shelter in the house and their scary costumes (ghosts, skeletons etc) lead Keaton and the gang of robbers to believe the house is actually haunted… Is it?!

BIOGRAPHY

(Adapted from https://www.biography.com for educational purposes only)

Film comedian and director Buster Keaton was popular for his pioneering silent comedies in the 1920s.

Buster Keaton was born Joseph Frank Keaton IV on October 4, 1895, in Piqua, Kansas.
He began performing at age 3.
He was introduced to film when he was 21 and eventually directed and starred in films in the 1920s.

As legend has it, he earned the name of “Buster” when he was 18 months old, after falling down a flight of stairs. Magician Harry Houdini scooped up the child and turning to the boy’s parents shouted, “That was a real buster!”

In October 1965 he was invited to the Venice Film Festival, where he showed his latest project, Film, a 22-minute silent movie. When his presentation concluded, Keaton received a five-minute standing ovation from the audience.Keaton was toward the end of his life making more than $100,000 a year just from doing commercials and was honored in 1959 with a special Academy Award.