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CriticCrunch has 16 Joe Roberts titles in its catalog, ranked by quality percentile. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by One Week.
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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

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 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
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

as Actor / Stage Manager (uncredited)
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
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 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
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