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Writers:
Buster Keaton (written by) and
Edward F. Cline (written by)
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Release Date:
22 December 1920 (USA) more
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Plot:
Farmhands Keaton and Roberts share a cottage full of mechanical devices for making life easy. They are rivals for the farmer's daughter... more | add synopsis
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David Jeffers - A PUP AND A CUTIE more (14 total)

Cast

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Buster Keaton ... Farmhand (as 'Buster' Keaton)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:19 min (1995 Film Preservation print)
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: Keaton, being chased by a dog, jumps into a large pile of straw. Shortly after that, there's a noticeable cut because a substantial amount of straw is missing from the middle after the edit. more
Quotes:
Farmhand: I don't care how she votes, I'm going to marry her! more
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Featured in Dopo mezzanotte (2004) more

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David Jeffers - A PUP AND A CUTIE, 3 September 2005
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Author: rdjeffers from Seattle

The Scarecrow belongs among Buster Keaton's best two-reelers with others like The Boat and One Week. Buster gets chased through half the picture by a very clever dog. The rest is with Sybil Seely, Keaton's cutest girl co-star. The dog runs Buster through the ruins of an old adobe house, up a ladder and into a mountain of hay. Seely dances amid the bales then coyly misinterprets Buster's bended knee as a proposal. In the scarecrow scene he quickly kisses her, she runs into the middle of the river astonished, and delivers a double-take in close-up, it's priceless! They somehow end up on a speeding motorcycle with a minister who marries them just before they plunge into a river. The dog is wonderful, Buster's rival is suitably oafish and there's even a great part for 'Big Joe'. The Scarecrow has less of the impossible stunts Keaton was known for but it flies along at break-neck speed from beginning to end and has enough material in two reels for six or seven

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