Project Keaton

Project Keaton Post #28: From One Week to Speak Easily, submitted by silent film historian John Bengtson. John Bengtson is a silent film historian supreme, and Project Keaton was honored to have him aboard earlier in the month. This post was an oversight on our part: posted back on Buster’s birthday, October 4th, it is a delightful look back at one of Buster’s great passions: TRAINS. If anyone knows Bengtson’s work, they know his peerless expertise and placing silent movie locations. And in this post, Bengtson fixes his sights on Keaton’s 1931 talkie Speak Easily. “Watching Keaton’s penultimate MGM feature Speak Easily (1932) for the first time, I was surprised to see that the movie employs the same train stations where Keaton filmed some of his greatest silent film triumphs…” Just what are said triumphs? Read his full post here.