Buster Keaton The Shorts Collection 1917-1923

Happy Times and Jolly Moments

January 1943 •English

This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.

The Gardener

March 2024 •English

An inept man takes up a job of being a Gardener for some easy money but the seemingly simple tasks may prove to be too difficult for him as Gardening isn’t all as it seems.

Love is Madness

September 1917 •Bulgarian

A university student and a girl are in love. The girl’s aunt opposes their love. She has decided to marry her off to a rich suitor. The student decides to cunningly discredit the suitor of her choice before the aunt.

A Holiday Dream

October 1926 •Bulgarian

The young rentier Zhezhi leads a secluded life on his estate, away from the bustle of the city. His daily routine is interrupted by the arrival of a letter form Varna: his cousin invites him to spend the summer at the seaside. Zhezhi is lost in a reverie about his future adventures, falls asleep, and has his holiday dream…

Le Voleur Volé

April 2023 •French

A foolish but devious thief spends his time stealing portraits of rich families and selling them to the highest bidder. But a woman investigator knows how to trap him and teach him a lesson. One day, the thief breaks into an aristocrat's house but is surprised by the investigator. She has just taken his picture and stolen his own portrait !

Descansa muy en paz, Amancio

November 2022 •Spanish

Work it Class!

September 2022 •English

Borodino

August 2020 •Russian

An experimental sitcom, shot in the style of silent films of the early twentieth century. A parody of military-patriotic films. The plot of the film is the battle of the Russian army with Napoleon in 1812.

Rhubarb

April 1970 •English

A Police Inspector and a vicar play a round of golf. The Inspector has a Constable help him to cheat, while the vicar has other ideas...

Pushpaka Vimana

November 1987 •Kannada

An unemployed man, who dreams of living it large, finds a rich man drunk and lying in the sewer. Things take a turn when he imprisons him and takes his identity to get a taste of his lifestyle.

Knock and Run

March 2024 •English

A man is tormented in his home by a pesky neighbour.

My Neighbor Wants Me Dead

March 2019 •English

The Tenant continuously fails to escape his deadly apartment under five minute time limit as his blood-thirsty neighbor threatens to break in and exterminate him.

Hop Off

July 1928 •English

Only a few minutes remain of this partially lost film. A scientist discovers a potion that restores things to their original form: pets, jewelry--endless possibilities. His assistant wonders about its applications, with comical results.

Chaplin Short

January 2024 •English

A young man tries to win the heart of the woman he likes, but not all goes to plan in this homage to the films of Charlie Chaplin.

Ko-Ko's Hot Dog

February 1928 •English

Max and Dave Fliescher are eating hot dogs in their animation studio and begin drawing. The hot dog becomes a "real" dog, and it and Ko-Ko the Clown alarmingly end up inside a Gas Chamber.

The Day Tomé Was Shot

March 2023 •Portuguese

A man is robbed and creates a plan to get his money back from the robber.

Persuasive Peggy

November 1917 •English

Informed by her husband Ed that they will not be honeymooning at Niagara Falls as promised, but rather at the County Fair, newlywed Peggy decides it is time to assert her independence and steals away to the falls alone, leaving her bewildered husband to follow. After the honeymoon, Ed takes his bride to the home that had been his mother's, and Peggy redecorates the entire house in her husband's absence. Gradually, Ed learns to submit to his wife's modern attitudes until he discovers that her continual visits to the city have not been to the dentist's, as she had said, but to the studio of portrait painter Perry Pipp. Ed angrily confronts Peggy with her deception, forcing her to return home to her parent's house. Later, when Ed learns that Peggy has been posing for a portrait as a birthday surprise, he begs his wife's forgiveness, which she bestows, along with the information that a baby is on it's way.

String Beans

December 1918 •English

Farmer Toby Watkinsm whose fanciful poetry does not impress his exasperated uncle, leaves the farm to become a subscription solicitor for the "Sawbert Weekly Clarion." In Sawbert, Toby meets Mayor Lot Morris' daughter Jean, and the shy young people fall in love. Crooked stock promoter Kendall Reeves arrives in town and unveils his plan to open a string-bean cannery.

Dynamite

October 1920 •English

Trouble is stirred up at a munitions factory by a Walking Delegate.

Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford

Invalid date •English

Adaptation of the play by George M. Cohan.