Author Archive: Retro

After being mistakenly certified as an electrical engineer, Buster is hired to wire a house.

Buster helps a Native American tribe save their land from greedy oil barons.

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.

A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city’s entire police force.

A drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.

At the Elk’s Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse. A sham robbery turns into a real one. And there is a chase on a runaway trolley.

Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.

Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.

Buster plays a bumbling villain in this parody of melodrama.