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Writers:
Edward F. Cline (writer)
Buster Keaton (writer)
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Release Date:
18 April 1921 (USA) more
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Plot:
Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob... more | add synopsis
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Pleasantly Silly & Very Funny more (11 total)

Cast

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Buster Keaton ... Our Hero (as 'Buster' Keaton)
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Runtime:
USA:21 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Buster Keaton's first independent two-reeler. He didn't consider it to funny enough and had it shelved upon its completion in 1920. It was released the following year when his film output was slowed by a broken leg. more
Quotes:
Leader of Buzzards: Do you know the nature of an oath?
Our Hero: Yes. I play golf.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Popcorn of Doom (2003) (V) more

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Pleasantly Silly & Very Funny, 26 July 2001
Author: Snow Leopard from Ohio

This is the kind of pleasantly silly and very funny film that typifies the very best of these old silent short slapstick comedies. It's fast-paced and filled with clever gags, and a couple of especially hilarious scenes. It starts when Buster tricks everyone into thinking that he is a crack shot, and thus finds himself hired by a rich miser to be his bodyguard, while also being recruited by a gang of criminals (the 'Blinking Buzzards', who go around saluting each other with the 'High Sign') to assassinate the same man. There's not much else to the plot, which is mostly a setup for a lot of zany antics. It's funny all the way through, and there is some especially good use of props and settings in this one. It's just slapstick fun, nothing to take seriously, but slapstick doesn't come much better. This is highly recommended for fans of silent short comedies.

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