{"product_id":"0089218443397","title":"Speak Easily","description":"\"Buster Keaton's best sound feature casts the Great Stone Face as Professor Post, a na?ve college pedant who mistakenly believes he has inherited $750,000. Hoping to use this windfall to bring the Fine Arts to the waiting world, Post gets mixed up with a two-bit theatrical troupe, headed by Jimmy the piano player (Jimmy Durante). Enchanted by the troupe's libertine leading lady Eleanor Espere (Thelma Todd), the professor agrees to finance their Broadway-bound musical, assuming it will be presented in tasteful, classical tradition. When he realizes that he's bought into just another girlie show, Post walks onstage to apologize to the opening-night audience, only to become the hit of the show himself as he becomes enmeshed in the production's special stage effects. Post's unconscious silliness saves the musical from becoming a disaster and also somehow wins him the love of Pansy Peets (Ruth Selwyn), the hometown girl he left behind. Based on a novel by Clarence Buddington Kelland, Speak Easily boasts some terrific sight gags, an abundance of hilarious repartee between the usually ill-matched Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante, and a hilarious performance by future \"\"Charlie Chan\"\" Sidney Toler as an apoplectic stage manager.\"","brand":"GOTHAM DIST. CORP..***","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47093296398576,"sku":"0089218443397","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/0089218443397_p0.jpg?v=1763376852","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0089218443397","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}