A rookie policeman is constantly putting his oar in where it doesn't belong..
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Billy West—often dismissed as a Chaplin doppelgänger—never pirouetted so close to existential slapstick as he does in Brass Buttons. His rookie patrolman is less a lawman than a human tuning fork, vibrating to every urban tremor. The film’s first reel alone packs more kinetic choreography than a Busby Berkeley fever ...


Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

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" Billy West—often dismissed as a Chaplin doppelgänger—never pirouetted so close to existential slapstick as he does in Brass Buttons. His rookie patrolman is less a lawman than a human tuning fork, vibrating to every urban tremor. The film’s first reel alone packs more kinetic choreography than a Busby Berkeley fever dream: West’s knees swivel like poorly oiled hinges, his club whirls like a runaway propeller, and the camera itself seems to snicker as it races ahead to catch the impending pratf..."

