Buster Keaton, Gwen Lee, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, and Edward Sedgwick in Free and Easy (1930)

Free and Easy

Movie1930• Passed• 1h 32m
ComedyMusical
⭐ 5.5 / 10(1,114)

A bumbling manager tries to get a small town beauty contest winner into the movies.

Rated
Passed
Runtime
1h 32m
Released
1930
Country
United States

Details

Release year: 1930

Storyline

A bumbling manager tries to get a small town beauty contest winner into the movies.

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Did you know

• Talkie debut for Buster Keaton.

• MGM stars who make cameo appearances in the film include William Haines, Lionel Barrymore, Karl Dane, Dorothy Sebastian, Gwen Lee, John Miljan, and Jackie Coogan.

• The three main characters of the film - Elmer Butts, and Elvira and Ma Plunkett - come to Hollywood from Gopher City, Kansas. Trixie Friganza, who plays Ma Plunkett, was in fact from Kansas. Buster Keaton, who plays Elmer Butts, was also born in Kansas.

User reviews

⭐ 6/10

Buster enters the Sound Age - and plays Pagiacci

šŸ‘ 9 Ā· 9/23/2007
⭐ 6/10

Keaton The Schnook

šŸ‘ 8 Ā· 11/2/2007
⭐ 5/10

Hollywood or Butts

šŸ‘ 7 Ā· 6/25/2013

Technical specs

Sound mix
Mono
Aspect ratio
1.20 : 1
Color
Black and White
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