The Scarecrow (1920 film)

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The Scarecrow
The Scarecrow 1920.jpg
Buster Keaton and Luke
Directed byEdward F. Cline
Buster Keaton
Written byEdward F. Cline
Buster Keaton
Produced byJoseph M. Schenck
StarringBuster Keaton
Sybil Seely
Joe Keaton
Joe Roberts
Cinematography
Edited byBuster Keaton
Distributed byMetro Pictures
Release date
  • November 17, 1920 (1920-11-17)
[1]
Running time
21 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
The Scarecrow
Buster accidentally proposes to Sybil in The Scarecrow (1920).

The Scarecrow is a 1920 American two-reel silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton, and written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline. It runs 19 minutes. One of its more memorable scenes is the opening, where Buster and Joe Roberts share a small one-room house filled with space- and labor-saving Rube Goldberg-type devices. Later, Keaton tries desperately and comically to outrun and escape Luke the Dog.[2]

Plot[]

Buster plays a farmhand who competes with his housemate (Roberts) to win the love of the farmer's daughter (Sybil Seely). Running from a dog (played by Luke, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's real-life pet) that he believes is rabid, Buster races around brick walls, jumps through windows, and falls into a hay thresher that rips off most of his clothes. He is forced to borrow a scarecrow's clothes in a nearby field. He then trips into a kneeling position while tying his shoes, and Sybil believes he is proposing marriage. They speeds off on a motorcycle, with Joe and the farmer (played by Buster's father, Joe) in hot pursuit. Scooping up a minister during the chase, they are married on the speeding motorcycle and splash into a stream, where they are pronounced man and wife.

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References[]

  1. ^ "TBK 5: The Scarecrow + Gabriella Oldham." Talking Buster Keaton, October 30, 2017.
  2. ^ Fristoe, Roger. "The Scarecrow." Turner Classic Movies. November 7, 2017.

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