• Film ID:
  • 11174
  • Availability:
  • DVD Available from Shop
  • Film cert:
  • Running time:
  • DVD=75 min.
  • Nationality(ies):
  • America.
  • Primary Language(s):
  • Silent.
BUSTER KEATON: VOLUME 1 (1920)
(CONVICT 13, THE HIGH SIGN, DAYDREAMS, THE BALLOONATIC.)
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CONVICT 13 (1920) Keaton goes from a golf game with his girlfriend to death-row in prison through a case of mistaken identity. THE HIGH SIGN Thrown off a train near an amusement park, Buster gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill s businessman, Buster ends up protecting the man and his daughter. DAYDREAMS (1922) In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, Buster goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various jobs, which her imagination expands into much better ones; she thinks he's a surgeon when he is a vet's assistant and he is clearing up on Wall Street when he's a janitor. THE BALLOONATIC (1923) One of Keaton's final short films finds Buster and Phyllis trying to prove to each other their survival skills. When a balloon mistakenly takes flight with no one on board but Buster he ends up in the wilderness having to rely on his survival skill for real.
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