Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline – MRQE

Cops

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.

The Boat

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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 he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. The rest is a series of adventures he and his family have with the restored boat.

Neighbors

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

Three Ages

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.

The Electric House

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.

The Frozen North

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This satirical parody of William S. Hart’s melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, “last stop on the subway.” He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing a gambling house. When he thinks he spies his wife making love to another man he shoots them both only to learn it isn’t his cabin after all.

The Play House

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.

Hard Luck

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.

The Scarecrow

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Buster competes with another farmhand for the love of the farmer’s daughter.

Convict 13

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.