Author Archive: Retro

Buster goes away to the city to prove to his girl’s father he can succeed. He writes her of his various jobs which she glorifies in her imagination. She sees a surgeon, he is a vet’s assistant; she sees him cleaning up on Wall Street, he’s really a janitor.

Buster and Phyllis endure mishaps and adventures in the outdoors trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon which lands Buster in the wilderness proves useful later on as their canoe nears a waterfall.

A golfer is mistaken for a prison inmate and hilariously struggles to escape execution.

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. An excellent short comedy with a lot of creative material and a good variety of gags.

Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton parody western tropes in a saloon showdown.