About this movie
Cast & Crew
Cast
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Buster Keaton
Ronald
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Anne Cornwall
Mary Haines
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Flora Bramley
Mary's Friend
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Harold Goodwin
Jeff Brown, a Rival
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Buddy Mason
Jeff's Friend
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Grant Withers
Jeff's Friend
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Snitz Edwards
The Dean
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Carl Harbaugh
Crew Coach
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Sam Crawford
Baseball Coach
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Florence Turner
Ronald's Mother
Directors
- James W. Horne
Producers
- Joseph M. Schenck
College
The silent comedy feature College stars Buster Keaton as a scholarly young man who doesn't know beans about sports. When he arrives in college, Buster finds that all the Big Men on Campus are jocks. To impress pretty coed Anne Cornwall, Buster tries and fails to join all the school teams. Even when he attempts to take a job at the campus soda fountain, Buster is a washout. Through the kindness of dean Snitz Edwards, Keaton is placed on the varsity rowing team where, despite several clumsy moments, he manages to win the big race. This infuriates his athletic rival Harold Goodwin, who seizes Cornwall and runs off with her. In racing to her rescue, Buster is compelled to repeat all the sports activities at which he'd previously failed--and does so, magnificently. He bursts into Goodwin's dorm room and saves Cornwall from the usual worse-than-death fate. Hero and heroine kiss--at which point this lighthearted film takes a sudden, chilling turn. As always, Buster Keaton performs his own stunts in College, except for the pole-vaulting bit, which was accomplished by Olympic champ Lee Barnes.
Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes
88%
percent positive reviews
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Tom Milne, Time OutMinor Keaton but major almost any other comedian.
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Mordaunt Hall, New York Times
Keaton himself strives to be funny, but his actions are so frightfully absurd that it strikes one that the character he plays never ought to be out of an asylum.
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Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Buster on the playing field, failing gloriously at every sport but executing each one beautifully when he dashes to his girl's rescue, is a study in precision and grace.
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