One Week (1920)
1920 · Silent film · 25 min · dir. Buster Keaton
Two reels of side-splitting fun arising from the trials of honeymooners…
- Comedy
- silent film
Synopsis
Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Buster Keaton
- Writer
- Edward F. Cline
- Cinematography
- Elgin Lessley
- Studio
- Joseph M. Schenck Productions
- Released
- 1920-08-29
- Running time
- 25 minutes
Cast & crew
Buster Keaton Director
Sybil Seely
Lon Chaney
Joe Roberts- Buster Keaton
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Humorous Silent Buster Keaton Short - 1920s Style · Poohbah70 · 2019-06-21
'In 2008, One Week was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".'And, most reviewers rave about this film - might be best to listen to them. I found this to be an example of what innocent 1920s America, new to this kind of absurdist humor, found funny in a plot based on the everything-that-could-possibly-go-wrong-will-go-wrong approach compounded by Keaton's straight-faced acceptance of the absurd as if everything were normal and his exaggerated antics and pratfalls. Not…
