{"id":41134,"date":"2026-02-17T12:32:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41134"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:32:43","slug":"battling-butler-1926-directed-by-and-starring-buster-keaton-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41134","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Battling Butler&#8221; (1926) directed by and starring Buster Keaton \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z021726zview_battlingbutler.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Battling Butler <\/strong><\/em>(1926)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Buster Keaton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Al Boasberg, Lex Neal, Charles Smith, Paul Gerard Smith; <\/strong>based on <em>Battling Butler<\/em><br \/>\n(a 1922 play) by <strong>Stanley Brightman, Austin Melford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Buster Keaton, Sally O&#8217;Neil, Walter James<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>KEATON wins the laugh championship of the world in this greatest of all screen comedies! A love story. A prize-fight story! A knockout &#8211; and how! You can&#8217;t stop laughing!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alfred Butler has grown up with all the luxuries a wealthy family can provide.\u00a0 Alfred, although a young man, even has a personal assistant.\u00a0 Alfred is a small, gentle young man who his father believes needs to toughen up.\u00a0 So Alfred and his valet decide to go roughing it in the woods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While camping Alfred meets a poor young woman who lives with her family in a mountain shack.\u00a0 It&#8217;s love at first sight.\u00a0 The woman&#8217;s brothers are tough mountain men.\u00a0 In order to impress them, Alfred&#8217;s valet says that Alfred is a famous fighter called &#8216;Battling Butler&#8221;.\u00a0 Alfred reluctantly goes along when it becomes clear that the family is impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Alfred never dreamed he&#8217;d really have to enter the ring against the real &#8220;Battling Butler&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get ready to rumble!<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Battling Butler<\/em> was released the same year as Keaton&#8217;s classic <em>The General<\/em>.\u00a0 Ironically, <em>The General,<\/em> during it&#8217;s initial release, was considered a huge flop, while <em>Battling Butler<\/em> became Keaton&#8217;s second biggest hit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Battling Butler <\/strong><\/em>(1926) rates 3 of 5 stars.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z021726zview_battlingbutler2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battling Butler (1926) Director: Buster Keaton Screenplay: Al Boasberg, Lex Neal, Charles Smith, Paul Gerard Smith; based on Battling Butler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,49,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-sports","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41135,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41134\/revisions\/41135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}