***Preceded by COPS (1922, 20 min) - 2K restoration with Ben Model piano score***
***Seven Chances feat. a remastered 2017 score by Robert Israel***
Love has never been funnier or more difficult to manage than in this immortal Keaton comedy. SEVEN CHANCES is a film often imitated but never rivaled for hilarity and visual virtuosity. Keaton stars as Jimmie Shannon, a romantically jinxed young man who must marry by 7:00 PM on his 27th birthday, to inherit seven million dollars. While fate seems to thwart his efforts to woo the object of his true affection (Ruth Dwyer), public announcement of his strange predicament provides him with a throng of would-be brides who are aggressive in their pursuit of a husband, to say the least. In one of the most rousing, brilliantly choreographed sequences in Keaton's career, Shannon flees the horde of women while dodging the hostile forces of nature that seem to be conspiring against him (in the form of a colossal rockslide) during his manic dash to the altar.
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