SPEAK EASILY (1932) ¢ ¢
D: Edward Sedgwick
Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Selwyn,
Thelma Todd, Hedda Hopper, Sidney Toler
Buster Keaton plays a stodgy college professor who inherits a fortune (he thinks) and decides to invest it in a struggling theater company. You can see where a few of the gags in this might've gone somewhere, if Keaton had had any creative control, but at that point in his career, he didn't, and it all just kind of goes flat. Buster muddles through somehow - he always did - but you can't help thinking he'd rather be somewhere else.
