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The High Sign is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Edward F. Cline released in USA on 18 april 1921 with Buster Keaton
The High Sign (1921)
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Add to a movie listThe High Sign is a 1921 American short comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton. It was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline. The runtime is 21 minutes. Although One Week (1920) was the first of Keaton's independent shorts to be released, The High Sign was the first one to be produced. Disappointed with the result, Keaton shelved the film. It was not until a year later, when he broke his ankle and delayed the completion of The Haunted House (1921), that the film was released. The title refers to the secret signal used by the underworld gang in the film.
Guitarist Bill Frisell released a soundtrack to the movie in 1995 on his album The High Sign/One Week. The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra premiered its new score for the movie in 2008.
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Buster plays a drifter who cons his way into working at an amusement park shooting gallery. Believing Buster 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.Actors
Buster Keaton
(Our Hero)
Bartine Burkett
(Miss Nickelnurser)
Al St. John
(Man On Beach)
Joe Roberts
(Leader of Buzzards)
Charles Dorety
(le méchant (non crédité))
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, 22minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
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Origin USA
Genres Comedy
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The Rough House (1917)
, 19minutesDirected by Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
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Rating56%
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, 17minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
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Rating64%
The film opens near the "last stop on the subway", a terminal in Alaska, which appears to be emerging from deep snow in the middle of nowhere. A tough-looking cowboy (Buster Keaton) emerges. He arrives at a small settlement, finding people gambling in a saloon. He tries to rob them by scaring them with the cutout of a poster of a man holding a gun, which he places at the window, as if it is he is an accomplice. He tells the gamblers to raise their hands in the air. Frightened, they hand over their cash, but soon they find out the truth when a drunk man falls over the cutout. Keaton is thrown out through the window.
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, 18minutesDirected by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline
Rating75%
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