Notes on…

The High Sign(1921)

Dir. Directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton

👐 I can't quite articulate it, but I always feel like some unwritten rule is being violated whenever Buster Keston (or Chaplin) handles a gun.

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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.