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Buster Keaton: The High Sign (1920)
Buster Keaton: The High Sign (1920) is a 20-minute comedy that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is in the U.S. public domain.
About Buster Keaton: The High Sign (1920)
The High Sign is a 1921 two-reel silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton, and written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline. Its runtime is 21 minutes.
Keaton plays a drifter who cons his way into working at an amusement park shooting gallery. Believing Keaton is an expert marksman, both the murderous gang the Blinking Buzzards and the man they want to kill end up hiring him. The film ends with a wild chase through a house filled with secret passages and trap doors.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The High Sign (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).
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- Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV
Rights & source
- Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
- Evidence: First published 1920 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
- Music: Silent film: audio removed from this copy (any added score may be modern); a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
- Source: Internet Archive
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