Author Archive: Retro

The funniest truckin’ you’ve ever seen!

Buster’s handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. At the harbor he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. The rest is a series of adventures he and his family have with the restored boat. This funny short has some good subtle gags plus the usual slapstick and gadgets.

Newlyweds attempt to build a prefabricated house with disastrous and comic results.

Out of work, Buster tries various ways to commit suicide. At last he tries “poison” from a bottle containing booze. The president of a sporting club speaks of the need for a sportsman to promote the club and drunken Buster gets the job for which he must learn fishing, hunting and riding.

Keaton spoofs melodramatic westerns as a villainous outlaw in Alaska.