The Silent Partner

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1955 / 30min.

Rating6

Genres

Comedy

Synopsis

When a great film director accepts an Academy Award, he reflects on a comedian he worked with in the early film days, owing his success to him, not realizing that man is now destitute, watching the show on TV from a barstool. Part of the Screen Directors Playhouse series, sponsored by Kodak, and in association with Screen Directors Guild.

Directors

Actors

Buster Keaton

Jack Elam

Percy Helton

Zasu Pitts

Joe E. Brown

Charles Horvath

Jack Kruschen

Evelyn Ankers

Joseph Corey

Lyle Latell

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