Buster Keaton went deadpan, altering his expression with only the tiniest of inflections, and became a modernist icon of fortitude.

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Chan is credited with creating a new film art form, with his comedic take on martial arts, reminiscent of Buster Keaton's slapstick style.

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The 1965 "Beach Blanket Bingo, " for example, featured subplots involving a mermaid, a motorcycle gang and a skydiving school run by Don Rickles, and comic touches by silent film star Buster Keaton.

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Let me predict that few great silent, foreign or little-known films will be on your show, and that after the balloting, the winner will not be 'Citizen Kane, ' 'Rules of the Game, ' 'Metropolis' or anything by Buster Keaton.

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They persuaded the festival to screen a strand of Sherlock Holmes films - a rare chance to compare and contrast some very different screen portrayals, from the recent thriller Reichenbach Falls to Buster Keaton and Douglas Fairbanks' take on the pipe smoking detective.

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