If you’re the kind of person who finds 1920s child actors a little unsettling, Buster’s Big Chance isn’t going to do you any favors. It’s worth a look if you’re deep into the history of silent shorts or if you have a weird fascination with how comic strips were translated to the screen back then, but for anyone else? I...
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Francis Corby
Maurice Campbell
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"If you’re the kind of person who finds 1920s child actors a little unsettling, Buster’s Big Chance isn’t going to do you any favors. It’s worth a look if you’re deep into the history of silent shorts or if you have a weird fascination with how comic strips were translated to the screen back then, but for anyone else? It’s probably a skip. It’s not that it’s bad, exactly, it’s just that it’s thin. Even for a short, it feels like it’s stretching about three minutes of actual ideas into a full runt..."
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