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Title: Convict 13 (1920)
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| Buster Keaton | ... |
Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard
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Sybil Seely | ... |
Socialite, Warden's Daughter
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Joe Roberts | ... |
The Crazed Prisoner
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Edward F. Cline | ... |
Hangman
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Joe Keaton | ... |
Prisoner
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Louise Keaton |
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Buster is playing golf with Sybil when he gets knocked out. An escaped prisoner changes clothes with him. Buster goes to prison and learns that he is to be hanged. He changes clothes with a guard just as prisoner Roberts attacks all the guards. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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27 October 1920 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Although this is not one of Keaton's best shorts, it does have a few very funny moments. The exchange of exercise stretchers for the hanging rope and the resultant "bounce," the run-in with the berserk prisoner. The one gag that runs throughout is that clothes make the man. Once his street garb is changed for a prisoner's stripes, the girlfriend and her father immediately assume the Buster they knew is now a criminal. Buster later exchanges the prison garb for that of a warden - at just the wrong moment. Kino's video print is quite poor and fuzzy- odd for a Metro film. The music is supplied by a player piano with music effects and sound effects (whistles, doors slamming). There are dropouts. Not his best but an amusing twenty minutes.