The Alabama Killer

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Movie
German title The Alabama Killer / Buster Keaton, the boxer
Original title Battling butler
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1926
length 71 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Buster Keaton
script Paul Gerald Smith , Al Boasberg , Lex Neal , Charles H. Smith
production Joseph Schenck
camera J. Devereux Jennings , Bert Haines
occupation

The Killer of Alabama is a silent film comedy by and with Buster Keaton from 1926. It was created after the stage success of the same name based on the novel by Stanley Brightman and Austin Melford .

action

The spoiled millionaire son Alfred Butler is sent to camping by his father so that he can finally become a real man. But Alfred has everything with him to make life as comfortable as possible, even in the great outdoors, and his butler takes great care of him.

On a failed hunting trip, the clumsy Alfred meets a pretty girl who saves him from the water shortly afterwards in a fishing accident. He falls head over heels in love and has the girl's family propose marriage the next day. But the father refuses to give his daughter to a effeminate man to wife. A newspaper article reporting on a boxer named "Battling Butler" saves Alfred's plans: He claims to be that boxer. The next day they get married. But now the problems really begin for Alfred, because he has to leave as soon as possible because the fight between "Battling Butler" and the "Alabama Murderer" is imminent.

Alfred and his butler follow the boxing match on site. They hope that "Battling Butler" will lose the fight and thus end his career, but in the end he wins by knockout. Shortly thereafter, Alfred and the boxer meet. When he found out about Alfred's fraud, he asked him to fight the rematch against the "Alabama Murderer". So the weak Alfred actually becomes a boxer against his will and is trained for the fight.

In the end, it turns out that he was tricked. "Battling Butler" had no intention of pitting him against the "Alabama Murderer". Instead, there is a duel in the dressing room. Alfred finally proves to be the winner through his ability to overcome himself.

criticism

The film service writes: "Despite several shortcomings in the dramaturgy of this theater adaptation, the film became Keaton's most successful silent film and, thanks to its multi-layered message and wonderful gag sequences, is rightly counted among Keaton's masterpieces."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buster Keaton, the Alabama Killer (I'm the Greatest). Retrieved January 4, 2019 .