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The Three Ages

Play trailer Poster for The Three Ages 1923,  1h 0m,  Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 92% 13 Reviews Tomatometer 77% 1,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
92% Tomatometer 13 Reviews 77% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry and love play out three times as a Man vies with a Villain for the Girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a Ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. During contemporary times, the Man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.

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Anton Bitel Little White Lies Aug 9, 2023
as puny but perspicacious Keaton vies with the larger, cheating Wallace Beery for the hand of Margaret Leahy, it will turn out that the other constants in this non-evolving history are ingenious stunts, pratfalls and sight gags... Go to Full Review
James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk Mar 27, 2024
2.5/4
enjoyable enough, but hardly in the league of Keaton’s best features Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Dec 10, 2023
3/4
Anticipates Mel Brooks’ hilarious History of the World: Part I in a few ways (not to mention some Marx Brothers tomfoolery). Go to Full Review
Robert E. Sherwood LIFE Oct 7, 2021
Although one has considerable difficulty in following the weird meanderings of Buster's plot (if any), one has no trouble whatever in greeting his antics with a hearty laugh. Of the three ages, the cave-man part is easily the most comic. Go to Full Review
Adele Whitley Fletcher Motion Picture Magazine Nov 16, 2020
One of the funniest comedies of the silversheet. Go to Full Review
Ellie Lucas From the Front Row Jun 4, 2019
2.5/4
Not Keaton's best feature (it often feels like three short films stitched together), it's filled with such wonderful visual wit. Go to Full Review
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Buster Keaton

Director

Edward F. Cline

Director

Buster Keaton

The Boy

Margaret Leahy

The Girl

Wallace Beery

The Villain

Joe Roberts

The Girl's Father

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The Three Ages

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Movie Info

Synopsis The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry and love play out three times as a Man vies with a Villain for the Girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a Ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. During contemporary times, the Man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.
Director
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Producer
Buster Keaton, Joseph M. Schenck
Screenwriter
Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, Buster Keaton, Joseph A. Mitchell
Distributor
Image Entertainment Inc., Video Yesteryear, Kino Video, Reel Media International [us], Grapevine Video
Production Co
Buster Keaton Productions Inc. [us]
Genre
Comedy
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 24, 1923, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 26, 2020
Runtime
1h 0m
Aspect Ratio
Academy (1.33:1)
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