College

College is a 1927 American silent comedy directed by James W. Horne and starring Buster Keaton as Ronald, a bookish student who has just graduated at the top of his high school class. At college, his disdain for athletics leaves him out of step with his sport-obsessed classmates, and the girl he admires, Mary, pays attention instead to Jeff, a brawny rival. Determined to win her over, Ronald throws himself into one sporting event after another, from baseball to track and field to rowing, with results that are consistently disastrous.

The film belongs to Keaton's celebrated run of silent features and was the tenth of the thirteen films he directed. It followed Battling Butler and preceded The Cameraman. Joseph M. Schenck produced, and the screenplay was written by Carl Harbaugh and Bryan Foy. Alongside Keaton, the cast includes Anne Cornwall as Mary, Harold Goodwin as Jeff, Flora Bramley as Mary's friend, Snitz Edwards as the Dean, and Carl Harbaugh as the crew coach. The production credits twenty-three cast members.

Released in September 1927 and running about an hour and five minutes, College is generally well regarded. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.9 from roughly 5,800 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.7 from a much smaller pool of about 130 votes. A critics' score of 7.4 from twenty-four reviews places it somewhat higher than the audience averages, suggesting that reviewers have responded to it a little more warmly than general viewers have.