Clyde Bruckman and the Birth of Film Comedy,” and served as a point of reference on, of all things, an episode of “The X-Files.” So, yeah, Bruckman cribbed from “Seven Chances” for the Stooges, just ...
The film stars Keaton as a man who learns he can inherit seven million dollars if he marries by 7 pm that evening. As a ...
The film’s subtitle, “The Seven Chances,” nods to the social slapstick of Buster Keaton’s 1925 Seven Chances, while acknowledging the accident of political preferences and the reality of ...