Direction: Buster Keaton

Direction Buster Keaton · Clyde Bruckman

Cast Buster Keaton · Marion Mack · Glen Cavender · Jim Farley

Synopsis The General (1926) follows Johnnie Gray, a brave train engineer in the American Civil War, whose true love, Annabelle, doubts his loyalty when he's rejected by the Confederate Army. When Union spies steal his beloved locomotive, "The General," and kidnap...

Direction Buster Keaton

Cast Buster Keaton · Kathryn McGuire · Joe Keaton · Ward Crane

Synopsis In Sherlock Jr. (1924), a humble film projectionist dreams of becoming a great detective. When falsely accused of stealing a watch, he uses his amateur sleuthing skills to clear his name. While dozing off at work, he enters a surreal...

Direction Buster Keaton

Cast Buster Keaton · Ruth Dwyer · T. Roy Barnes · Snitz Edwards

Synopsis When Jimmie Shannon's uncle leaves him seven million dollars in his will, it seems as though his fortune is well and truly made... until he reads the small print: in order to quality, he has to be married by 7pm...

Direction Edward Sedgwick · Buster Keaton

Cast Buster Keaton · Marceline Day · Harry Gribbon · Harold Goodwin

Synopsis Luke Shannon (Buster Keaton), is a bumbling photographer who, in order to win the favor of a beautiful woman, takes a job as a newsreel cameraman. Hilarity ensues as he stumbles through a parade, a Chinese Tong war, a yacht...

Direction Buster Keaton · John G. Blystone

Cast Buster Keaton · Joe Roberts · Ralph Bushman · Craig Ward

Synopsis In this silent movie, a man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

Direction Buster Keaton · Charles Reisner

Cast Buster Keaton · Tom McGuire · Ernest Torrence · Tom Lewis

Synopsis It is the story of a college-educated young man who comes home to help his father work on his Mississippi River steamboat and immediately demonstrates just what a landlubber he is. What's worse, the woman he falls for is the...

Direction Donald Crisp · Buster Keaton

Cast Buster Keaton · Kathryn McGuire · Frederick Vroom · Noble Johnson

Synopsis This is the tale of a wealthy couple who find themselves cast adrift in an empty cruise liner. By themselves and away from their posh lifestyle, they have to cope with unending perils.

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Sybil Seely · Joe Roberts

Synopsis Buster gets married, and as a wedding present his uncle gives him and his new bride some land and a house to go with it, but only when they get to the lot do they realised that the house is...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Roberts · Joe Keaton

Synopsis The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Sybil Seely · Joe Roberts · Edward F. Cline

Synopsis Farmhands Keaton and Roberts share a cottage full of mechanical devices for making life easy. They are rivals for the farmer's daughter. Keaton, disguised as a scarecrow, causes troubles for his rival and the farmer. When Keaton stoops to tie...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Bartine Burkett · Charles Dorety · Al St. John

Synopsis 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. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daughter by...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Wallace Beery · Margaret Leahy · Joe Roberts

Synopsis Keaton spoofs D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance" in his debut feature as creator/star. He demonstrates both comic and dramatic skills as he parodies the evils of intolerance in prehistoric times, ancient Rome and in "modern" times.

Direction Buster Keaton · Malcolm St. Clair

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Roberts · Malcolm St. Clair

Synopsis Buster is inadvertently identified as the notorious outlaw Dead Shot Dan. He is pursued throughout the city by the local police chief, using disguises and quick-thinking to elude the lawman. He encounters Virginia, a young lady friend, and goes to...

Direction Buster Keaton

Cast Buster Keaton · Sally O'Neil · Walter James · Budd Fine

Synopsis Alfred's father wants him to make of a man of himself so sends him off on a hunting and fishing trip. He doesn't catch or shoot anything, but he does fall in love with a mountain girl. When her father...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Keaton · Myra Keaton

Synopsis 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.

Direction Buster Keaton

Cast Buster Keaton · Howard Truesdale · Kathleen Myers · Ray Thompson

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Joe Roberts · Virginia Fox · Edward F. Cline

Synopsis Through a series of mistaken identities Buster winds up with a load of furniture in the middle of parade of policemen. An anarchist's bomb lands in his carriage. After lighting his cigarette with it, he tosses it into the ranks...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Roberts · Edward F. Cline

Synopsis The opening scene, a dream sequence prior to the vaudeville routines which follow, is what makes this film famous. In it Keaton plays everyone in a theatre simultaneously (through multiple exposures). He is the band leader, all its members, the...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Roberts

Synopsis Evil oil barons have given the Indians one day to vacate their land. The Indian chief tells his braves to kill the first white man they see. Buster shows up chasing a butterfly. Later he keeps moving the stake to...

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline · Sybil Seely

Synopsis Buster's 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...