{"id":17929,"date":"2025-09-23T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17929"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:08:32","slug":"the-saphead-1920-smith-blache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17929","title":{"rendered":"The Saphead (1920, Smith &#038; Blach\u00e9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a Buster Keaton movie, just a drama he starred in because Douglas Fairbanks was too busy, playing a pretty useless rich guy who gets mixed up in the affairs of a useless less-rich guy whilst trying to marry his adopted sister.  Keaton adds minor gags where he can, but was heading down a different path, his own <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3704\">One Week<\/a><\/em> released a few days earlier.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/saphead1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/saphead2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Shitty Mark is married to Buster&#8217;s sister, their moneybags businessman dad leaves town for a day and Mark trashes the business to distract from the discovery of his secret second family in Nebraska, who he&#8217;s pinned on Buster on the guy&#8217;s would-be wedding day.  Boring business stuff ensues, while Buster blows off steam knocking off people&#8217;s hats on the stock exchange and unwittingly saving the day, and Mark literally dies of shame.  Writer June Mathis also wrote <em>Ben-Hur<\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6\">Greed<\/a><\/em>, was considered a major force in Hollywood when she died suddenly in 1927.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/saphead3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/saphead4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a Buster Keaton movie, just a drama he starred in because Douglas Fairbanks was too busy, playing a pretty useless rich guy who gets mixed up in the affairs of a useless less-rich guy whilst trying to marry his adopted sister. Keaton adds minor gags where he can, but was heading down a different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[526,214,2135],"class_list":["post-17929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1920s","tag-buster-keaton","tag-nebraska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17948,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions\/17948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}