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My Wifes Relations 1922 When a large Irish woman falsely accuses Buster of breaking a window he is hauled before a Polish judge who speaks no English and assumes they are there to be married She takes her new husband home to meet her four gorilla like brothers

The Play House 1921 Portraying more than twenty characters at once including lively stage actors, an attentive audience, an orchestra, and an entire nine member minstrel act Buster Keaton pushes the boundaries of technical artistry and film trickery, in a time when effects really were special With t

Day Dreams 1922 Buster goes away to the city to prove to his girls father he can succeed He writes her of his various jobs which she glorifies in her imagination She sees a surgeon, he is a vets assistant she sees him cleaning up on Wall Street, hes really a janitor

The Love Nest 1923 Buster bids goodbye to Virginia and all women, sailing away in his Cupid Later, without food or water, he is taken on board The Love Nest which has a very mean captain A crewman who spills coffee on the captains hand is thrown overboard So is anyone else who bothers the captain

The Electric House 1922 Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home He installs lots of fanciful gadgets The one who should have received the degree gets even by rewiring all the gadgets to wreak havoc

The Balloonatic 1923 Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills The balloon which lands Buster in the wilderness proves useful later on as their canoe is about go over a waterfall

One Week 1920 Buster and Sybil exit a chapel as newlyweds Among the gifts is a portable house you easily put together in one week It doesnt help that Busters rival for Sybil switches the numbers on the crates containing the house parts

Hard Luck 1921 Out of work, Buster tries various ways to commit suicide At last he tries poison from a bottle containing booze The president of a sporting club speaks of the need for a sportsman to promote the club and drunken Buster gets the job for which he must learn fishing, hunting and riding

The Haunted House 1921 Buster is a bank clerk Overturned glue gets everything, mostly the money, stuck to everything else When robbers show up he cant stick em up because his hands are stuck in his pockets The robbers hideout is a haunted house designed to scare off police

The Boat 1921 Busters handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses At the harbor he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him The rest is a ser

Behind the Eight Ball 1942 The shooting and murder of two guest stars at the Shady Ridge Summer Theatre, operated by Joan Barry, threatens to close the musical Fun For All To bolster the show, Joan induces Bill Edwards, who shares joint ownership with her, of the farm the theatre is located on, and

Neighbors 1920 The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginias families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings

Three Ages 1923 In his first independently produced feature film Buster tells of love and romance through three historical ages the Stone Age, the Roman Age, and the Modern Age

The Bank Dick 1940 Egbert Souse leads an ordinary life but is about to have an extraordinary day Henpecked at home home by his demanding wife Agatha and more or less ignored by his daughter Myrtle, he sets off for the day He comes across a movie shoot whose drunken director hasnt shown up for work a

My Little Chickadee (1940) Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. On the train she meets con man Cuthbert J. Twillie and pretends to marry him for "respectability." Arrived in Greasewood City with his unkissed bride, Twill

You Cant Cheat an Honest Man (1939) Larson E. Whipsnade runs a seedy circus which is perpetually in debt. His performers give him nothing but trouble, especially Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Meanwhile, Whipsnade's son and daughter, Phineas and Vicky, attend a posh college. Vicky turns down her

Since You Went Away (1944) While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter Jane and the

Hook Line and Sinker (1930) Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as