1925 · comedy · silent · romance
Seven Chances
Directed by Buster Keaton56m1925
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Our read: Seven Chances (1925) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · silent · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / silent, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- redemptive
- intimate
- funny
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