Sherlock Jr. by Buster Keaton (1924) Movie Review
by Kiara Walker



 



Sherlock Jr. is a film from the 1920s. It is an American silent comedy film that stars Buster Keaton and written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez and Joseph A. Mitchell. It also features Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, and Ward Crane.  

It is about a projectionist that want to be a detective. He is in love with a girl and tries to win her heart over. He has a rival that tries to win her over also. Neither of them have much money to buy her anything so the projectionists buys her a dollar box of chocolates while the rival steals her father's watch and sells it to get money. The rival frames him by putting the pawn ticket of the watch in his pocket. The projectionist, who is studying to be a detective, offers to solve the crime, but when the pawn ticket is found, is banished from the girl's home because they thought he stole by it being in his pocket.
While showing a film about the theft of a pearl necklace, he falls asleep and dreams that he enters the movie as a detective. The other actors are replaced by the projectionist's "real" acquaintances. When he awakens, the girl shows up to tell him that she learned the identity of the real thief. As a reconciliation is playing on the screen, he mimics the actor's behavior.