Buster Keaton

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

Dir. Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

Dir. Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Dir. Charlie Chaplin · With Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Dir. Edward Sedgwick · With Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

Dir. Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline · With Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.

Dir. Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence

Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.

Dir. Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards

A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

Dir. Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone · With Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Natalie Talmadge

Two farmhands compete for the love of the farmer's daughter.

Dir. Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Joe Keaton

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.

Dir. Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Virginia Fox

A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.

Dir. Malcolm St. Clair, Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their honeymoon. When circumstances find both Rollo and Betsy on the wrong ship, they end up having adventures on the high seas.

Dir. Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp · With Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Frederick Vroom

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.

Dir. Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

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.

Dir. Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers

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 outfitting their home with trick devices.

Dir. Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline · With Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety

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.

Dir. Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline · With Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.

Dir. Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline · With Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Virginia Fox

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.

Dir. Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery

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

Dir. Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts

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

Dir. Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Keaton

A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.

Dir. Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Sally O'Neil

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.

Dir. Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline · With Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox

A bank teller becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.

Dir. Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's 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.

Dir. Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair · With Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

A boat builder and his family attempt to set sail in his handmade boat, 'The Damfino'.

Dir. Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton · With Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Sybil Seely

A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.

Dir. James W. Horne · With Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley

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, later proves useful as their canoe is about go over a waterfall.

Dir. Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline · With Buster Keaton, Babe London, Phyllis Haver

A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white oil tycoons are trying to force them from their land.

Dir. Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline · With Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

Dir. Richard Lester · With Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Phil Silvers