Watch Three Ages (1923) Free Online

Release Date: 1923   Duration: 60 min

Cast: Joe Roberts, Kate Price, Lillian Lawrence, Wallace Beery, Margaret Leahy, Buster Keaton

Categories: Movies, Parody, Romantic comedy, Silent film, Indie film, Comedy film, Epic film, Black-and-white, Drama, Comedy, Fantasy

Three Ages is a 1923 black-and-white American feature-length silent comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery. The first feature Keaton wrote, directed, produced, and starred in, Keaton structured the film like three inter-cut short films. The structure also worked as a satire of D. W. Griffith's 1916 film Intolerance. The film was shot in this manner as a kind of insurance...  MORE

Three Ages is a 1923 black-and-white American feature-length silent comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery. The first feature Keaton wrote, directed, produced, and starred in, Keaton structured the film like three inter-cut short films. The structure also worked as a satire of D. W. Griffith's 1916 film Intolerance. The film was shot in this manner as a kind of insurance for the Studio. While Keaton was a proven success in the short film medium, he had yet to prove himself as a feature-length star. Had the project flopped, the film would have been broken into three short films, each covering one of the 'Ages.' A caption at the start of the Rohauer Collection print of the film states that when the film's negative was rediscovered in 1954 it was so badly decayed as to be considered unsalvageable. However, subsequent restoration work managed to preserve the film for posterity, although a good deal of damage is still evident. LESS