Last-minute getaway: Silent films with orchestra music at Catalina’s Casino Theatre

If you think movies should be seen and not heard, the Catalina Island Museum has an event Saturday with your name on it. The Avalon museum’s annual Silent Film Benefit will feature two movies that are considered among the funniest made during the silent-film era.

The films, which will be screened in the island’s Art Deco Casino Theatre, are “One Week,” with Buster Keaton, and “The Kid Brother,” with Harold Lloyd. The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra will provide accompaniment.

In the 1920 comedy classic “One Week,” Keaton, often called “the great stone face,” plays a bridegroom who’s trying to put together a build-it-yourself house that he and his new wife received as a wedding present. The instructions indicate that the house can be built in a week, but plans go awry when a rejected suitor renumbers the crates of materials.

“Kid Brother,” filmed in 1927, tells the story of a sheriff’s timid son (Lloyd) who faces off against his brawnier bothers and has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town.

Viewers often dress the part for the annual film benefit, wearing Roaring ‘20s period costumes. Prizes are awarded for the best-dressed individual, best-dressed couple and best character from each film.

The movies start at 1 p.m., with doors opening at 12:30. Tickets are $25 for museum members and $28 for non-members.

Info: Silent Film Benefit (310) 510-2414

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