Director:
Buster KeatonReparto:
Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Sally O'Neil, Francis McDonald, Eddie Borden, Tom Wilson, Walter James, Budd FineSinopsis(1)
Keaton stars as Alfred Butler, a fragile young man whose father sends him into the country where he hopes masculinity will blossom. Ironically, he is there mistaken for "Battling" Butler, a renowned prizefighter of firey temperament. To impress a young lady (Sally O'Neil), Alfred carries on the ruse by engaging in a laughingly inept training regimen, but his harmless charade is soon complicated by the untimely arrival of the true contender (Francis McDonald). When the long-awaited opportunity to prove himself a man finally comes, it is before the gloved fists of the boxer, who initiates a locker-room brawl. There, in a sequence of agonizing tension and delightful surprises, Battling Butler reaches its unforgettable climax. (texto oficial de la distribuidora)
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Unlike the previous (and apparently more widely known and slightly better reviewed) Go West, I like this one much better. The humor is again not all that goofy, but it doesn't matter, as it is still very effective and there is a lot of it. The story is a classic swap comedy in the best sense of the word, with Buster Keaton playing the spoiled rich guy perfectly... And when he finally starts to train in the ring in the finale, he is afraid of his opponents like the devil is of the cross, and he wrestles more with the ropes (which he cannot seem to climb over) than with the opponents, and this has to make pretty much everyone laugh.
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