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14 March 1921 (USA)
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Out of work, Buster tries various ways to commit suicide. At last he tries "poison" from a bottle containing booze...
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A Great Keaton short
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(Complete credited cast)| Buster Keaton | ... | Suicidal Boy | |
| Virginia Fox | ... | Virginia | |
| Joe Roberts | ... | Lizard Lip Luke |
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Revealing mistakes: Buster steps off a curb by a narrow street with no streetcar tracks, into a wide street with an approaching streetcar.
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Featured in Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987) (TV)
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Hard Luck is one of Buster Keaton's best shorts. It is also one of the most surreal. It has no real plot, just Keaton wandering around and getting into all sorts of trouble. The jokes are often bizarre, such as the one when he is riding his horse down a river, walks across a tiny bridge and expects to sit down on his horse again, only to find a wildly kicking bull that immediately throws him off. Watching this helps one understand why the French surrealists regarded him as one of their favorite film-makers. This is one of his films where stuff just happens, similar to The Balloonatic. Unfortunately, it is not complete, and the last frames are missing. Even so, this contains enough laughs to surprise even the most jaded cinema viewer. Hard Luck is Keaton at his surreal best.