Our Hospitality (1923)
Our Hospitality (1923) After her husband John McKay is killed in an ongoing feud with the Canfield family, a woman takes her baby boy Willie to her sister's house in New York hoping he will never know of the feud with the Canfields. Twenty years later Willie is a grown man and he receives a letter s
Three Ages (1923)
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
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Sherlock Jr. (1924) A meek and mild projectionist, who also cleans up after screenings, would like nothing better than to be a private detective. He becomes engaged to a pretty girl but a ladies man known as the Sheik vies for her affection. He gets rid of the projectionist by stealing a pocket watc
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish, to purchase his freedom. When his master and mistress leave for the day he finds out that the young master has fallen in love with a virgin in the house of Lycus, a slave dealer special
The Navigator (1924)
The Navigator (1924) Rollo decides to marry his sweetheart Betsy and sail to Honolulu. When she rejects him he decides to go alone but boards the wrong ship, the "Navigator" owned by Betsy's father. Unaware of this, Betsy boards the ship to look for her father. whom spies capture before cu
Spite Marriage (1929)
Spite Marriage (1929) Elmer is a dry cleaner. He is madly in love with stage star Trilby Drew; for each of her 35 performances, he dons someone else's tuxedo and races to the theatre. When Trilby's co-star boyfriend gets engaged to a socialite, she marries Elmer to get even, assuming Elmer is a mill
The General (1926)
The General (1926) Johnnie loves his train ("The General") and Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War begins he is turned down for service because he's more valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks it's because he's a coward. Union spies capture The General with Annabelle on board. Johnnie must rescue b
Go West (1925)
Go West (1925) A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwelmed by the life of the city, so decides to try his luck somewhere else after a only a few minutes in New York. He falls off a train near a ranch, where he tries his luck as a cowbowy, b
Battling Butler (1926)
Battling Butler (1926) 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 and brothers laugh at this they are informed that he is Alfred "Battlin
Seven Chances (1925)
Seven Chances (1925) Financial broker Jimmie Shannon is nearly bankrupt when an attorney presents grandfather's will leaving him seven million dollars. In order to inherit the money Jimmie must marry before 7 pm on his 27th birthday - today!
The Cameraman (1928)
The Cameraman (1928) After becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels, Buster trades in his tintype operation for a movie camera and sets out to impress the girl (and MGM) with his work.
College (1927)
College (1927) Ronald's high school valedictory address praises books and condemns sports. His girlfriend Mary condemns his attitude. He fears losing her to rival Jeff, decides to go to college and pay more attention to sports.
The Love Nest (1923)
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
Sidewalks of New York (1931)
Sidewalks of New York (1931) A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.
The Balloonatic (1923)
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
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) Following through on a promise to his mother, William Canning Jr. goes to River Junction to meet his father who has not seen him since he was a child. The younger Canning isn't quite what the elder was expecting but the old man has bigger problems. He's being put out of bu
My Wifes Relations (1922)
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
Buster Keaton, the Genius Destroyed by Hollywood (2016)
Buster Keaton, the Genius Destroyed by Hollywood 2016 A documentary about how the most talented comic genius of all time Buster Keaton fell prey to the Hollywood Studio system machinery in 1930s which curbed his artistic freedom, leading to alcoholism and ultimately completely destro
Coney Island (1917)
Coney Island 1917 A rotund young man and his wife are spending the day at the beach at Coney Island Feeling restless and wanting to go to the amusements at Luna Park, he ditches his wife At the amusement park, he meets a pretty young woman She arrived at the amusement park with one man, went in with
The Butcher Boy (1917)
The Butcher Boy 1917 Customers and clerks frolic in a general store Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing In Busters film debut he buys a pail of molasses
Hard Luck (1921)
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 Boat (1921)
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
The Goat (1921)
The Goat 1921 After missing out on a fresh loaf of bread, down on his luck, Buster, finds himself pursued by three policemen hot on his trail However, to make matters worse, just when the lawless murderer, Dead Shot Dan, is about to have his mug shot taken, an innocent but fatal mistake will put a p
Neighbors (1920)
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
The Haunted House (1921)
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 Bell Boy (1918)
The Bell Boy 1918 At the Elks Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse A sham robbery turns into a real one And there is a chase on a runaway trolley
The Play House (1921)
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
The Blacksmith (1922)
The Blacksmith 1922 Buster clowns around in a blacksmiths shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it
The Paleface (1922)
The Paleface 1922 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 which he is tied and at which he is to be burned He becomes one of the t
One Week (1920)
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
Day Dreams (1922)
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 Electric House (1922)
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
Good Night, Nurse (1918)
Good Night, Nurse 1918 An inebriated man stands in front of a drug store during a rain storm trying to light a cigarette Back at his home, his wife and butler see a report on the No Hope Clinics success curing alcoholics When hubby arrives home, bringing two gypsies and their monkey, his wife insist
The Scribe (1966)
The Scribe 1966 Amateur journalist Buster covers a story about construction site safety regulations and gets first hand experience in the process
Oh Doctor (1917)
Oh Doctor 1917 Instead of a having a good time at the horse races with his wife and his pampered son, Junior, the prosperous Dr I O Dine ends up losing all his money, after betting on the same losing horse with a reckless horse racing gambler However, as the gambler and his femme fatale sweetheart r
Film (1965)
Film 1965 A twenty minute, almost totally silent film no dialogue or music, save one shhh in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all seeing eye But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeleys principle esse est percipi to be is to be perceived, Keatons very existence conspires