Seven Chances

Seven Chances is a 1925 American silent comedy directed by and starring Buster Keaton as a junior brokerage partner who learns he will inherit seven million dollars only if he marries by seven o'clock that same evening, and who scrambles for a bride after his intended rejects his hasty proposal and a newspaper announcement draws a crowd of would-be brides to a church. Adapted from a Broadway play, the film is best remembered for its climactic chase, in which Keaton flees an avalanche of roughly 150 papier mache boulders down a hillside, a sequence widely cited as one of his most elaborate and memorable physical comedy set pieces. It stands as a showcase of Keaton's mastery of large scale visual gag construction during the golden age of silent comedy.