The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 4 Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.0
Video		4.0
Audio		4.0
Extras		2.0
Overall		4.0

The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 4 Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman December 10, 2020

A "little" thing like a global pandemic may have momentarily put the kibosh on a more regular release schedule, but Cohen Film Collection is back now after more than a year with its fourth installment of Buster Keaton classics, after having offered fans The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 1 (which included The General and Steamboat Bill, Jr.), The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 2 (which included Sherlock Jr. and The Navigator), and The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 3 (which included Seven Chances and Battling Butler). As with the previous volumes, this Cohen release is a “two-fer”, and it also boasts new restorations and new scores, along with what might be at least a bit of an improvement in the supplements category.

For reviews of the two films included on this release, please click the following links:

Go West Blu-ray review

College Blu-ray review

The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 4 Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 4 Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 4 Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

As with previous releases in this still nascent series, this volume of Keaton is presented on one disc, with a slate of supplements that is at least incrementally better than some that have graced previous volumes in this series. This may be a tacet recognition that many of the Kino Lorber releases came packed with extra features.

• Go West Re-release Trailer (1080p; 1:00)


• College Re-release Trailer (1080p; 00:57)


• Buster Keaton, Screenwriter (1080p; 59:19) is a fantastically interesting audio recording of Keaton developing a script idea which he intends to pitch to (get ready) Wagon Train.


• Go West (1080p; 12:01) is the 1923 short.

The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 4 Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Absence may have indeed make the heart grow fonder, along with a perhaps understandable need to just let worries ago and laugh a little, making this fourth volume of Keaton classics a very welcome addition to what has often been a very challenging year. Both films offer generally solid technical merits, and Cohen is starting to up its game in the supplements department with their Keaton series. Recommended.