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Just like with Tommy Cooper, I only have to see Buster Keaton with his deadpan face and I'm laughing.
I believe that this is Keaton's second feature, and it's superb. There is a very melodramatic prologue that sets up the background premise to the film: the history of feuding between two Kentucky families. Buster, born into one of the families, is taken away to New York to be raised in safety. However, as an adult he goes back to Kentucky to claim his inheritance, and falls in love with a girl on the train journey there. Yes, you guessed it, she if from the rival family who have vowed to kill Buster. There are some fantastic set pieces. There is the very very strange train journey. The tricks Buster uses to avoid getting shot at by the other family. The famous waterfall rescue sequence. Great stuff.
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