#Buster keaton cops movie

While signaling a left turn with his hand, he gets bitten by a dog, and puts on a boxing glove. He begins to ride into the street, with a huge pule of furniture and a very slow horse. The man gives him a scrap of paper with an address to take the furniture to, but Buster has no interest and tosses it away. Soon, Keaton sits down and lets the man and his family do all of the work for him. He begins loading, and the father of the family sees him and takes him for a moving man, so begins to help loading the cart. Now Buster has illicitly (accidentally) obtained a huge pile of furniture and a means of transport. Cline gives the bill to the store owner and takes the jacket. The man takes the money, and Buster leads the horse away, and we see that the sign was actually attached to a jacket on a mannequin from the store behind. Cline, his co-director), assuming he owns it. With only $5 left, Buster looks around and sees a horse and cart with a sign draped over the horse, saying “For Sale $5.” He gives this money to a hobo ( Edward F. The man grabs most of the wad of bills and skedaddles. Buster feels sorry for the man, but also thinks that maybe the furniture would make a good investment for him, so offers to pay for it. When Buster comes over to investigate, he tells him that he’s being thrown out on the street with nowhere to go and no money. He sits in front of the pile of furniture and begins weeping loudly. A con man ( Steve Murphy) sees this, and also sees a family hauling furniture to move from a nearby apartment. Only now do we see the man’s badge, indicating that Buster has just had his first run-in with the law.īuster has the taxi pull over elsewhere in town, and foolishly flashes his wad of bills when he pays for the ride. He gets only the wallet, so the taxi turns around again and this time he gets out, ready to confront Buster, but Buster just gets into the cab from the other side and drives off. The man, however, realizes the money is gone and has the taxi return, grabbing it from Keaton’s hand in motion. When the taxi pulls away, Keaton starts counting the money he has lifted during the scuffle. He then tries to help the man to the taxi, still hoping for a tip, but each effort he makes backfires and the man is tripped and becomes increasingly angry.

Buster retrieves it and, rather than steal it, offers it back to the man, expecting a reward. He accidentally drops a large wad of money. A short distance away, he sees a man ( Joe Roberts) hailing a taxi. She tells him in an intertitle that in order to marry her, he will need to be successful in business. Then, she turns and walks away from him, and the new angle shows that he is standing at the gate to her home, and that she is on the grounds of a large estate.

#Buster keaton cops movie

The movie begins by establishing its simple premise – Keaton speaks to a girl ( Virginia Fox) through bars, as if in prison. While limited in terms of plot and character, it takes the basic concept of the chase, a staple of film since the beginning, and “runs with it” (pun intended) for all it’s worth. This simple two-reel short confirms Buster Keaton’s genius before he had moved on to the production of comedy features later in the twenties.