Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Release: Seven Chances & Battling Butler

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Digital, Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Aug. 20, 2019
Price: DVD $17.99, Blu-ray $24.99
Studio: Cohen Media

Next up on Cohen Media’s slate of Buster Keaton masterpieces slated for release on single-disc Blu-ray and DVD packages, as well as digital platforms, are Seven Chances  and Battling Butler.

Buster Keaton in Seven Chances (1925)

In 1925’s Seven Chances, a struggling stockbroker Buster gets word that if he can be married by 7 o’clock that evening he will inherit $7,000,000. When his sweetheart refuses, he proposes to everyone in skirts, including a Scotsman. Hopeful still, he advertises for a bride and is horrified to discover 500 would-be-brides hot on his trail in a hilarious chase to the finish.

Keaton remarked on occasion that Battling Butler from 1926 was his favorite of all his films. Based on a Broadway play, the story revolves around a case of mistaken identity between two Alfred Butlers – one an effete millionaire (Keaton), the other the heavyweight champion of the world (Francis McDonald). Coincidence brings them to the same backwoods Kentucky neighborhood, where Butler-the-flop finds love with a mountain girl, but not before antagonizing Butler-the-brute into a Madison Square Garden grudge match.

Both the Blu-ray and DVD of this pair of film that comprise The Buster Keaton Collection, Vol. 3, include the featurettes “Buster Keaton: The Daredevil and as trailers for both films.

 

Buy or Rent Seven Chances & Battling Butler

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.