Aug 9th
Sherlock Junior** (U)
Electric Palace, Harwich

US 1924. Metro. 46m. bw. silent

A cinema projectionist and amateur sleuth falls asleep and dreams himself into the film he is showing.
Part two of the CTA/Electric Palace double bill is headed by this excellent surreal Keaton comedy, playing around with lots of amusing ideas and typically fast-paced gags.

Written by: Clyde Bruckman, Jean Haver, Joseph Mitchell.
Producer: Joseph M. Schenck.
Director: Buster Keaton.
Starring: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly.
Photography: Elgin Lessley, Bryon Houck.

Preceded by:
Men of the Lightship**
(GB 1940. Crown Film Unit. 25m. bw; The crew of a lightship on the East coast of England is attacked by German bombers. Next to incomprehensible in terms of the crew's dialect, but the material is well put together within sparing wartime circumstances, and with a dramatic final reel.; p: Alberto Cavalcanti; d: David McDonald; m: Richard Addinsell.)