The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 5 Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.0
Video		4.0
Audio		5.0
Extras		0.5
Overall		4.0

The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 5 Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman November 9, 2023

After having brought out The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 1, The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 2 and The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 3 in relatively short order starting in 2019, Cohen Media Group then slowed down quite a bit before it finally released The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 4 over a year later in 2020, and that interim between releases has only been extended with this latest effort. I in fact had assumed Cohen was done with Keaton since it had been so long and the label had begun a "new" (for it) set of releases featuring another titan of cinema even earlier than Keaton in the form of both Douglas Fairbanks Double Feature: Robin Hood / The Black Pirate and Douglas Fairbanks Double Feature: The Three Musketeers / The Iron Mask. But the good news is that Cohen evidently isn't through with Keaton yet, and this double feature offers two of the silent master's best remembered efforts.

For reviews of the films on this disc, please click on the following links:

Three Ages Blu-ray review

Our Hospitality Blu-ray review

The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 5 Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality is assessed in the above linked reviews.

The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 5 Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality is assessed in the above linked reviews.

The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 5 Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

• Our Hospitality Re-release Trailer (HD; 1:00)

The Buster Keaton Collection: Volume 5 Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Cohen offers another fun double feature of Buster Keaton films, both with generally secure technical merits, but the label really needs to up its supplements game if it wants to compete with the likes of the previous Kino Lorber releases. On the whole, Recommended.