Seven Chances | |
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Directed by | Buster Keaton |
Screenplay by | Clyde Bruckman Jean Havez Joseph A. Mitchell |
Story by | David Belasco |
Based on | Seven Chances 1916 play by Roi Cooper Megrue |
Produced by | Joseph M. Schenck Buster Keaton |
Starring | Buster Keaton |
Cinematography | Byron Houck Elgin Lessley |
Edited by | Buster Keaton |
Music by | Robert Israel (1995) |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn |
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Running time | 57 minutes (6 reels) |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
Box office | $598,288 |
Seven Chances is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, based on the play of the same name by Roi Cooper Megrue, produced in 1916 by David Belasco. Additional cast members include T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, and Ruth Dwyer. Jean Arthur, a future star, has an uncredited supporting role. The film's opening scenes were shot in early Technicolor. The film includes Keaton's famous rock avalanche sequence.[1]