Best movie of this year hands down!

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

"College" is essentially about Buster Keaton's efforts to win his lady fair (Anne Cornwall)....the hard way.The film opens at Buster's high school graduation (Keaton was actually a little too old to play an eighteen year old at the time). Buster it seems is an academic who condemns athletes. Buster's rival (Harold Goodwin) laughs at Buster's ideas.The next fall the trio enroll at Clayton College. Buster has vowed to impress his girl by trying out for various athletic teams. He "plays" baseball and enters several track and field events with disastrous results. Finally the Dean (Snitz Edwards) orders the rowing coach to install Buster as the rowing team's coxswain. Buster instills his own methods in the race and...........Although the story is a simple one, boy loves girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl, there are several memorable comedic moments. When Buster and his mother (Florence Turner) attend the High School Graduation, they are soaked in a downpour. As Buster delivers his speech, his newly bought suit begins to gradually shrink. He takes on two jobs to help pay his way, first as a soda jerk where he pales in comparison to his fellow employee, and later as a "colored" waiter in black face. Remember, this was 1927 and many vaudeville performers of the day used black face in their acts, so it was not out of the ordinary for Keaton to do so as well.Buster's baseball antics are hilarious as he tries to play third base. In the track and field segments, he fails at shot put, javelin, pole vaulting, hammer throw, hurdles and racing with equal aplomb.Buster's rescue of his girl from his nasty rival is mile a minute entertainment as he races to her aid. The finale of the film based on the "'til death do you part" scenario was I thought, a little unusual.This was I believe, the first of Keaton's films in which he was not credited as Director on screen.

This film reminded me a lot of Harold Lloyd's "The Freshman," in which Harold goes out for sports in college to impress a girl - same story - and made two years earlier. I am partial to Lloyd's version but I enjoyed this, too.Keaton's version starts off with the high school graduation ceremony. "Ronald" (Keaton), the scholar of the class, gives a speech denouncing athletics as a total waste of time and promoting being a bookworm over anything else. This speech is so offensive to the crowd that everyone leaves but Keaton's mom, who applauds. By the way, all the high school graduates look between 25-35 years of age. These are the oldest-looking high school seniors in history!!Anyway, a girl Buster is trying to impress "Mary Haynes" (Anne Cornwall), was among those not impressed with his snobby "scholar" speech. She'd rather have an athletic man. So, upon entering college, "Ronald" tries a variety of sports, to gain the approval of the girl. (Does this theme sound familiar, not just in the Lloyd film but so many of Keaton's other films?)He attempts to play baseball but is so clueless he puts on all the catcher's equipment to play third base. Suffice to say, after a number of plays ensue, it's more than evident that "Ronald" is a little bit out of his element! Next, he goes out for track, but gets discouraged when two little kids speed by him on the track. Throwing the discus and javelin are not good ideas, either. His high-jumping routine is very funny. He isn't bad in the hurdles, however. Obviously, pole vaulting doesn't work and the hammer throw almost gets his teammates killed, so he's told to leave.He gets a call from the Dean's office. The Dean, who liked him from the start because he preferred studies over sports, is distressed because Buster's grades are bad. Buster explains his problems and the Dean (played by the always-funny Snitz Edwards) sympathizes because, being a wimpy little guy, he same problem years ago with a woman he liked. So, as a favor, Dean Edwards orders the rowing coach to install Buster as the coxswain of the team. The coach and the crew don't want this, as "Little Lord Fauntleroy" or "Mama's Boy" and other names he's called, has a reputation already at college as an athletic loser. They try to sabotage his attempt at being part of their crew, but he turns the tables. The funniest scene is when the new coxswain literally becomes the boat's rudder.The neatest part of the film is the ending, which is usually the case in silent comedies. Suffice to say that Buster puts all of his athletic talents, which were not effective on the sports fields, to good use to get the girl. It's a memorable ending.

I am a HUGE fan of Buster Keaton and it was because of this I was so greatly disappointed by this film. It is an awfully uninspired film with very few genuine laughs. This is amazing since it came right after THE GENERAL and just before STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.--probably his two of his greatest films (I scored them both 10). But I just couldn't help watch this film and feel terribly disappointed--it paled in comparison. The idea of doing a college movie wasn't bad--after all, Harold Lloyd had just done his college film THE FRESHMAN and HORSEFEATHERS is one of the Marx Brothers' best movies. But the final product looked as if they had the concept but forgot to write the gags. Mostly, it just looked like they turned on the camera and filmed anything with no real plot until it neared the end. For example, a long period in the film consisted of Buster trying out a wide variety of track and field events and screwing each one up terribly. The problem was, doing poorly on a long-jump or high-jump or the hurdles just isn't funny--you say to yourself "so what" because nothing he does during these events is funny--just bad. A real waste of a great talent.If it had been anyone other than Keaton, I might have still enjoyed the film. But, knowing what he was capable of doing really ruined this film--it was simply second-rate Keaton.

I am not a HUGE Buster Keaton fan. I am, however, beginning to like his movies more and more. Even though the emotion on his face doesn't change, he is still a pretty damn good actor. I bought this movie on DVD from the 99 cent store. I have seen his most famous movie (The General) and i must say that this movie entitled "College" is a lot better. Every single scene had great entertainment. Very well filmed for that time. This movie really made me see how times have changed. In the scene where he plays a black waiter is something that would never make it into a movie these days. The ending was really original. Lots of laughs and of course, his physical comedy was excellent as usual.