Author Archive: Retro

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.

A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.

Roscoe tries to dump his wife so he can enjoy the beach attractions. Buster arrives with Alice who is taken away from him by Al who loses her to Roscoe. Bathing beauties and Keystone Kops abound.