| Spite Marriage | |
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| Directed by | Edward Sedgwick Buster Keaton |
| Written by | Robert Hopkins (titles) |
| Story by | Lew Lipton Ernest Pagano (adaption) |
| Produced by | Joseph M. Schenck Productions[1] |
| Starring | Buster Keaton Dorothy Sebastian |
| Cinematography | Reggie Lanning |
| Edited by | Frank Sullivan |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 76 minutes (8 reels)[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Spite Marriage is a 1929 American silent comedy film co-directed by Buster Keaton and Edward Sedgwick and starring Keaton and Dorothy Sebastian. It is the second film Keaton made for MGM and his last silent film, although he had wanted it to be a "talkie" or full sound film. While the production has no recorded dialogue, it does feature an accompanying synchronized score and recorded laughter, applause and other sound effects in some scenes.[1] Keaton later wrote gags for some up-and-coming MGM stars like Red Skelton, and from this film recycled many gags, some shot-for-shot, for Skelton's 1943 film I Dood It.
- ^ a b c "Spite Marriage (1929)", catalog, American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles, California. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ^ According AFI, the original print of Spite Marriage was 7,047 feet in length with a running time of 76 minutes. Wide discrepancies in cited running times are not unusual, especially for films produced and presented in the silent and early sound eras. Inconsistent times noted in reviews and in film descriptions can often be attributed to slightly different operating speeds of projectors in various locations and to varying time counts by reviewers and others who originally viewed the film.