Masters of Cinema boxes BUSTER KEATON: 3 FILMS VOLUME 2 (review)

Masters of Cinema brings us a selection of three more 4K-restored Buster Keaton silent classics.  In THE NAVIGATOR, a couple are stranded on a ship set adrift by spies.  In SEVEN CHANCES, a groom is on the run when thousands of brides discover he will inherit millions of dollars if he marries on his twenty-seventh birthday.  In BATTLING BUTLER, a wealthy young man impersonates a prizefighter to impress his bride-to-be's family and ends up in the ring fighting "The Alabama Murderer."

REVIEW LINK: Eureka Video (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

BUSTER KEATON: 3 FILMS VOLUME 2 Blu-ray specs:

• DISC ONE (The Navigator):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• Robert Israel Score DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Audio Commentary by silent film historians Robert Arkus and Yair Solan
• "Boats, Brides, and Boxers" video essay by film historian David Cairns
• "Buster, Boats, Other Seacraft, and Work on Navigator" short documentary on the making of the film and Keaton’s fascination with boats as sources of comedy, by film historian Bruce Lawton
• New Trailer
• DISC TWO (Seven Chances):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• Robert Israel Score LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Audio Commentary by film historians Joel Goss and Bruce Lawton
• "What! No Spinach?" comedy short by American actor / director Harry Sweet, that riffs on a number of elements from Seven Chances
• New Trailer
• DISC THREE (Battling Butler):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• Robert Israel Score DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Audio Interviews:
• "Buster Keaton in Conversation with Irwin Allen" (1945)
• "Buster Keaton in Conversation with Arthur Friedman" (1956)
• "Buster Keaton in Conversation with Robert Franklin" (1958)
• "Buster Keaton in Conversation with Herbert Feinstein" (1960)
• "Buster Keaton in Conversation with Studs Terkel" (1960)
• New Trailer
• LIMITED EDITION hardbound slipcase of 3,000 copies with a 60-page perfect bound collector’s book featuring new writing on all three films by Philip Kemp and Imogen Sara Smith as well as a selection of archival writing and imagery.