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The High Sign (1921)

1921 · Silent film · 21 min · dir. Edward F. Cline

What A Predicament!

  • Crime
  • Comedy

Synopsis

Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daughter by outfitting their home with trick devices.

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Details

Director
Edward F. Cline
Writer
Edward F. Cline
Cinematography
Elgin Lessley
Studio
Joseph M. Schenck Productions
Released
1921-04-18
Running time
21 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★★ · What a sight!! · ChiefMacon · 2019-10-17

This has to be one of Buster’s best.The timing and the gags are not to be equaled.And the scene where the pipe is shot out of his mouth has to be an amazing piece of “special effects.”

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