Spite Marriage

Elmer tries to put his drunk bride to bed and she folds out of every position he props her in; Keaton kept that scene in his stage act for the rest of his life. Elmer presses pants and worships an actress from the front row, and she marries him to spite the leading man who has thrown her over, then sobers up. A yacht, rum-runners, a fight below decks. Dorothy Sebastian is the bride. Keaton's last silent, made under the MGM system he could not control, and still, in the set pieces, his. 1929, released with a synchronised score.