Seven Chances

Seven Chances

  • Director: Buster Keaton
  • Writer: Roi Cooper Megrue,Clyde Bruckman,Jean C. Havez
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: None, English
  • Release date: March 15, 1925
  • Sound mix: Silent
  • Aspect ratio: 1.33 : 1
  • Also known as: Sedam prilika
  • Seven Chances is a silent comedy film directed by The Great Stone Face and starring The Great Stone Face. It was released in the United States on March 11, 1925.
    The film tells the story of a businessman facing economic crisis, James, who must marry before 7 pm on his 27th birthday in order to inherit his inheritance, which attracts women from all over the city to propose   .

    Details

    • Release date March 15, 1925
    • Filming locations Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies Buster Keaton Productions

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $210,748

    Movie reviews

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    • By Cassidy 2022-04-07 09:01:08

      Can't stop for a second

      This is nonsense. Americans are indeed the originator of nonsense.

      The first paragraph is not funny, the wonderful thing is after the church scene starts.

      GO, STOP.

      There is a big tree in the middle of the road, isn't it ridiculous?

      It's about racism, the black girl.

      The bride who rushed to the roller skating was also very nonsensical.

      The last church scene is really a big scene, is this how the crowd tactics came about? Very comedic and dramatic...

    • By Garrick 2022-04-07 08:01:02

      Buster Keaton is awesome

      Hahahahaha so funny Buster Keaton is an acrobat. There are parkour, rafting, and hot air balloon movies. There are three stories. 1. Seven chances to learn that there is a 700 million inheritance. On the day of his birthday, (by the way, no one celebrates his birthday), he went to Mary to confess, but he was too straight. Fortunately, Mary heard on the phone that he loved her and wanted to marry no one but her. The part about a large group of women in the newspapers for marriage is so funny,...

    • By Osbaldo 2022-04-07 08:01:02

      "Cold" comedy master

      Buster Keaton is known as the "cold-faced comedian", and the character he plays has a look of indifference, but the audience leans back. Perhaps Keaton's characters are too "serious" for the circumstances to make him anxious in any way - even natural and man-made disasters, storms and rolling stones. Keaton's little people are often single-strands, doing simple tasks without feeling boring, but they often invite misfortune. This is a movie that catches up with time, and it is so sad at the...

    • By Christopher 2022-04-07 08:01:02

      Happily, you will be tireless and unabated for a hundred years.

      This is not a movie review. Nor is it fiction.

      Plot theme:

          Businessman James Shannon (hereinafter referred to as Jim), in order to use his grandfather's huge fortune to get out of the economic crisis, must fulfill the only condition in his grandfather's will: to get married before seven o'clock in the evening when Jim is 27 years old.

      Regarding how Buster Keaton expresses the plot theme:

          "Seven Chances" is roughly divided into four paragraphs in...

    • By Viva 2022-04-07 08:01:02

      Silent is better than sound

      During the meal, Jackie said to watch this movie and said, "Old movies have been dug up, and the score must be so classic." When I saw it, it was silent, black and white, and I lost my patience in an instant. Can this look good? After watching it for about ten minutes, I completely believed in the screwdriver's recommendation as always.
          That's right, it's a wonderfully good show, with one story running through it all. The story is simple and the details are brilliant. It was so...

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    • By Magnus 2022-04-22 07:01:58

      very funny! Buster Keaton...

    • By Kiera 2022-04-22 07:01:58

      It is indeed a comedy master who has a fight with Chaplin. The chase of the bride and the falling rocks on the hillside are so classic, I feel that the shooting is very...

    • By Lionel 2022-04-22 07:01:58

      C. The reasons why I don’t like Keaton’s feature films gradually became clear: the intoxication and repetition of my own short films, the time-limited but lack of expressive narrative. When driving and confessing to encountering a tree in the road, the dog must not preempt the kiss. When encountering black people, dummies and real people, I think of the model dummy in "The Scapegoat". The football team, the police team, and the bees who were smashed by the crowd felt that the scheduling was...

    • By Winifred 2022-04-22 07:01:58

      This script has been remade more than once by later generations. . . Keaton is really an actor who takes his life to perform. In fact, this film mainly relies on thrilling scenes to attract attention. The key scenes are almost all big visions, and the excitement of Keaton's solo show is...

    • By Augustus 2022-04-22 07:01:58

      Hahaha, so funny~! ! Buster Keaton's stunts are awesome~! Running too fast, comparable to the cool running family~! ! It turns out that the story of hundreds of brides chasing grooms in the history of the movie is from here~~ "Hundreds of Millions of Fiances" can't be compared with this film at all~! ! Awesome~!...

    Movie plot

    Young corporate partner James Shannon ( The Great Stone Face ) is in love with the beautiful Mary Jones ( Ruth Dwyer ) , but he's too shy to say anything. On his 27th birthday, his and his partner's firm is in danger of going bankrupt and will have to close unless funds can be raised quickly. At the same time, James learned that his grandfather left him a huge inheritance of seven million US dollars, but the condition of getting this...
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    Evaluation action

    The film is a classic silent comedy. In just 50 minutes, even after many years, it still makes the audience laugh, nervous, excited, worried, and happy without a single line of dialogue. The joy that the Great Stone Face brings to people. The film mainly satirizes money worship and vanity, expounding the theme of "only true love can replace everything". The simple plot theme constitutes the classic four paragraphs in the interlacing of...
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    Movie quotes

    • Jimmie Shannon: (looking at a list of possible brides) Who bats next?

    • Billy Meekin - James' Partner: How many of these girls do you know? You have seven chances.

    • Jimmie Shannon: Would you marry me?