Buster and Tom get themselves involved with Thelma and Ruth, night club entertainers. The boys go to see them perform and cut up so idiotically that they are ejected.

Is it worth your time? If you're the type who finds Buster Keaton’s timing a bit too precise and wants something that feels like it was put together with nothing but sugar and sheer panic, you might actually get a kick out of Happy Heels. It’s not high art, it’s not even medium art. It’s just noise and limbs flailing i...


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

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"Is it worth your time? If you're the type who finds Buster Keaton’s timing a bit too precise and wants something that feels like it was put together with nothing but sugar and sheer panic, you might actually get a kick out of Happy Heels. It’s not high art, it’s not even medium art. It’s just noise and limbs flailing in a nightclub. Skip this if you need a plot that makes sense. Or if you have a headache. The energy here is relentless. Buster West and Tom Patricola are basically human pinballs...."

Buster West
William Watson, Arthur L. Jarrett, Parke Levy
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