Author Archive: Retro

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.

Roscoe, his wife and his motherinlaw run a seaside resort. Buster plays a gardener who puts out a fire started by Roscoe, then a delivery boy who fights with the cook St. John, then a cop.

Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.

A series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the evil badguy.