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Writers:
Edward F. Cline (screenplay)
Edward F. Cline (story)
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Release Date:
1 September 1920 (USA) more
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Plot:
Buster and Sybil exit a chapel as newlyweds. Among the gifts is a portable house you easily put together in one week... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
You Have To See This House To Believe It! more (22 total)

Cast

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Buster Keaton ... The Groom
Sybil Seely ... The Bride
Joe Roberts ... Piano Mover
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Additional Details

Runtime:
19 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
No models were used. All of the stunts were done with the full-sized house as seen on-screen. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Buster climbs onto the roof, the ladder is leaning against the front of the house, but when he climbs back down, it's leaning against the side of the house. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in A Silent Love (2004) more

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14 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
You Have To See This House To Believe It!, 10 January 2007
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Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States

Man, this 19-minute Buster Keaton short is almost too exhausting to watch as one crazy scene after another is shown. This is a wild and always-entertaining short, considered one of Buster's best. It's total lunacy.

Newlywed Buster and his bride (the pretty Sybil Sealey) get a "portable house" as a wedding present. When they get to the site, they find out they have to build the house themselves.

A poor loser who lost the girl, "Handy Hank," sabotages the house-building process by fouling up the numbered directions. When finished, the house is a little strange, to say the least! One look and you are guaranteed to laugh out loud. Anyway, there's work to be done decorating and adding a few more little things like th chimney or trying to fit a piano through a front window.

A calendar is shown throughout the movie and we see the daily "progress." Obstacles are many but the couple persists and kisses their way through all the problems.

Most of the film turns out to be sight gags and slapstick, especially when they have their "housewarming" at the end of the week and a big windstorm literally turns the house into a "merry-go-round."

If that isn't enough, you should see the ending when the train.......

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