Speak Easily

Greetings All, I must say this was a great movie, it has great actors and it's a fun movie to watch! I was very happy with this and would buy again from seller! Cheers! William

Jimmy Durante and Buster Keaton are superb and talented. Very funny movie. Entertaining.

Watching "Speak Easily" is painful for fans of Buster Keaton. Seeing such a phenomenal writer, actor, comic, director, and stunt man subjected to this humiliating spectacle is like seeing a Picasso used as a drop cloth, or perhaps more like seeing the finest camembert adulterated with whey solids and processed into Cheez-Whiz.Keaton is ill-cast as Professor Post, whose overblown vocabulary is the only thing keeping him from saying, "Tell me about the rabbits, George." (Post would have said something like, "Kindly inform me as to the status of the small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, kind sir, who I believe is primarily addressed with the epithet 'George'.") When Keaton created his own characters, they might be situationally clueless but they weren't stupid. They were quick studies and became masters of their worlds. Not so with Post, who never stops stumbling and bumbling and who who has no more control of his destiny than a bilge rat had of the Titanic. And while Keaton'soriginal characters had a charming naivete and innocence, Post comes across as such a profound sexual retardate that if he ever did become physically aroused, he'd put an ice bag on the swelling and seek medical help.There are a couple of small redeeming moments, such as Keaton's attempts to get rid of the vampish Thema Todd or his suggestion as to appropriate attire for a Greek dance, but it's just not worth enduring the entire film to see them.If you're a fan of bad movies, get drunk and watch "Speak Easily" with friends, a la "Mystery Science Theater 3000". But other than that, stick with the silents. Let them be 100% of what Buster Keaton is remembered for.

With a cast of Thelma Todd, Jimmy Durante, and Buster Keaton my hopes were high for this DVD. Funny moments at times. The cast was still great. Final musical routine was silly but may have been a funnier satire when first released. Will probably watch it again, but not as engaging as I would have hoped. Buster was a master of sight gags, not dialogue.

Everyone should watch Buster Keaton movies. He did all of his own stunts. A classic.

This dvd has stretched the original aspect ratio of 1.33:1, towide screen proportions of 2:1. The result is a fun house mirroreffect in which everyone has short wide bodies stretched outof shape.

The hilarious inebriated scene with Buster and the lovely, talented, Thelma Todd is a classic!

This is not a bad movie... it's not great, but if you love Buster Keaton you'll enjoy it. Buster is a good actor and always loveable! His drunk scene with Thelma Todd is pretty funny. If you plan on purchasing this movie, the 2009 Triad version has a much cleaner picture than the one from Alpha Vidio.

Delightful comedy, it may be old but Buster Keaton is funny in any age. Also starring Jimmy Durante and Thelma Todd, both veterans in comedy films, Buster sees a chance of a new life when he inherits $750'000, but the problem is he's a very innocent character.