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Sherlock Jr. (1924)
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Director Buster Keaton
Writer Jean C. Havez, Joseph A. Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman
Cast Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton
Plot A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
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The General (1926)
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Director Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Writer Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, Al Boasberg
Cast Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender
Plot After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through ene...
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The Cameraman (1928)
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Director Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
Writer Clyde Bruckman, Lew Lipton, Joseph Farnham
Cast Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin
Plot Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion-picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.
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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
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Director Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton
Writer Carl Harbaugh, Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence
Plot The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.
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One Week (1920)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts
Plot A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
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Seven Chances (1925)
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Director Buster Keaton
Writer Roi Cooper Megrue, Clyde Bruckman, Jean C. Havez
Cast Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T. Roy Barnes
Plot A man learns that he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7PM that evening.
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Our Hospitality (1923)
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Director John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton
Writer Jean C. Havez, Clyde Bruckman, Joseph A. Mitchell
Cast Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Keaton
Plot 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.
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The Navigator (1924)
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Director Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton
Writer Clyde Bruckman, Joseph A. Mitchell, Jean C. Havez
Cast Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Frederick Vroom
Plot Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.
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Cops (1922)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Virginia Fox
Plot A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force.
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The Scarecrow (1920)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Luke the Dog
Plot Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.
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The Goat (1921)
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Director Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair
Writer Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
Plot A series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the local bad guy.
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Neighbors (1920)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Jack Duffy
Plot A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.
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The Play House (1921)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Monte Collins
Plot After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.
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Go West (1925)
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Director Buster Keaton
Writer Buster Keaton, Lex Neal, Raymond Cannon
Cast Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers
Plot With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
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The High Sign aka The 'High Sign' (1921)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety
Plot A drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.
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Three Ages (1923)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Clyde Bruckman, Joseph A. Mitchell, Jean C. Havez
Cast Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery
Plot The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
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Director Richard Lester
Writer Melvin Frank, Michael Pertwee, Burt Shevelove
Cast Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton
Plot A wily Roman slave schemes to earn his freedom by romantically uniting his master with a courtesan. But matters get complicated and he ends up dragging in his neighbors around him, leading to chaos.
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College (1927)
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Director James W. Horne, Buster Keaton
Writer Carl Harbaugh, Bryan Foy
Cast Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley
Plot Ronald's high-school valedictory address praises books and condemns sports. His girlfriend Mary condemns his attitude. Fearing to lose her to rival Jeff, he decides to go to college and pay more attentions to sports.
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Battling Butler (1926)
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Director Buster Keaton
Writer Paul Gerard Smith, Al Boasberg, Charles Henry Smith
Cast Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Sally O'Neil
Plot A love-struck weakling must pretend to be boxer in order to gain respect from the family of the girl he loves.
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The Boat (1921)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Sybil Seely
Plot Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.
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Convict 13 (1920)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts
Plot A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
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The Electric House (1922)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Jeffrey Vance
Cast Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Keaton
Plot After being mistakenly certified as an electrical engineer, Buster is hired to wire a house.
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The Haunted House (1921)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
Plot A bank clerk ends up in a seemingly haunted house that is actually a thieves' hideout.
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Spite Marriage (1929)
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Director Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
Writer Lew Lipton, Ernest Pagano, Robert E. Hopkins
Cast Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle
Plot An unimpressive but well intending man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
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The Paleface (1922)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
Plot Buster helps a Native American tribe save their land from greedy oil barons.
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The Blacksmith (1922)
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Director Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair
Writer Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Virginia Fox
Plot Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.
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Day Dreams (1922)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton, Renee Adoree, Edward F. Cline
Plot A sincere young man leaves his home to win his fortune so he can marry his home town sweetheart.
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Film (1965)
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Director Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider
Writer Samuel Beckett
Cast Buster Keaton, Nell Harrison, James Karen
Plot 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 Berkeley's principle 'esse est...
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Hard Luck (1921)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
Plot Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.
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Balloonatic aka The Balloonatic (1923)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast Buster Keaton, John Brown, Phyllis Haver
Plot A hapless amusement park attendant finds his runaway balloon ride has left him in a strange predicament.
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Love Nest aka The Love Nest (1923)
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Director Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Writer Buster Keaton, Jeffrey Vance
Cast Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox
Plot In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at sea where he boards a whaling ship with a strict captain.
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My Wife's Relations (1922)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast Buster Keaton, Wallace Beery, Monte Collins
Plot By accident, Buster and an intimidating woman end up married.
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The Frozen North (1922)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Marion Harlan
Plot Buster plays a bumbling villain in this parody of melodrama.
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The Cook (1918)
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Director Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Writer Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John
Plot Chaos reigns at an upscale restaurant as a cook and a waiter juggle their responsibilities.
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The Railrodder (1965)
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Director Gerald Potterton, Buster Keaton, John Spotton
Writer Gerald Potterton, Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton
Plot After literally walking to Canada from England, Buster takes a cross-country trip across Canada on a railway motorcar (speeder).
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The Butcher Boy (1917)
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Director Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Writer Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Joseph Anthony Roach
Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John
Plot 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 Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses.
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Coney Island (1917)
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Director Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Writer Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Joe Bordeaux
Plot Roscoe tries to dump his wife so he can enjoy the beach attractions. Buster arrives with Alice, who is taken away from him by Al, who loses her to Roscoe. Bathing beauties and Keystone Kops abound.
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The Garage (1920)
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Director Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Writer Jean C. Havez
Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Molly Malone
Plot Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.
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The Bell Boy (1918)
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Director Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Writer Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Cast Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John
Plot At the Elk's 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.
