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Seven Chances
“Your grandfather has left you the sum of seven million dollars. Providing --- you are married by seven o’clock on the evening of your twenty seventh birthday.”
Running for Love and Legacy: Revisiting Seven Chances (1925)
Seven Chances (1925) stands as one of silent cinema’s most inventive romantic comedies—a perfect blend of physical precision, deadpan humor, and daring spectacle. Directed by Buster Keaton, this short feature follows the frantic day of a man who must marry by 7 p.m. to claim a fortune. Originally based on a Broadway play, the project wasn’t one Keaton sought out—it began as…
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