Battling Butler is a 1926 American comedy silent film directed by and starring Buster Keaton. It is based on the 1923 musical Battling Buttler. The film entered the public domain in 2022.
Lobby card
Battling Butler ad in Motion Picture News, 1926
Image: Battling Butler
Battling Buttler is a musical in three acts with music by Philip Braham and a book and lyrics by Stanley Brightman, Austin Melford and Douglas Furber, which opened in London in 1922. It was then greatly revised by Walter L. Rosemont (music) and Ballard MacDonald and produced on Broadway in 1923 after tryouts in Detroit and Chicago.
Sheet music from the Broadway production
Sheet music from The Dancing Honeymoon