Free and Easy (1930 film)

Free and Easy is a 1930 American PreCode comedy film starring Buster Keaton. It was Keatons first starring talkie vehicle.

In Hollywood, Elmer manages to bungle his way through numerous films being shot on the MGM lot, disrupting production. When given a screen test, he cant manage to say his one line correctly. Despite this, both he and Elviras mother are given film contracts, and appear in a comic opera together. Elmer want to tell Elvira that he loves her, but hints at it in such a way that she mistakes it for advice on how to tell Larry that she loves him.Free and Easy, whose working title was On the Set, was Buster Keatons first starring role in a film shot for sound he had appeared in MGMs talking The Hollywood Revue of 1929, but did not speak. As with his previous film for MGM, Spite Marriage, production on Free and Easy was largely out of Keatons hands. ........

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