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27 October 1920 (USA) morePlot:
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Where Else Can You See Someone Spanking A Fish? moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Buster Keaton | ... | Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard |
 | Sybil Seely | ... | Socialite, Warden's Daughter |
| Joe Roberts | ... | The Crazed Prisoner |
| Edward F. Cline | ... | Hangman |
| Joe Keaton | ... | Prisoner |
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| Louise Keaton | ||
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Hangman: [to the disappointed convicts, after the hanging goes wrong] Sorry, boys. We'll fix it and tomorrow we'll hang two of you to make up for this. moreFAQ
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An early Buster Keaton short, this begins with Buster attempting to play golf and obviously not being too familiar with how to play the game. Where else but in a silent comedy can you see a golfer trying to hit the ball out of a lake while standing on a raft...and then diving in for fish to find out which fish swallowed his golf ball?! Keaton gets it on the third try and gives the fish a spanking after retrieving the ball! Insane stuff, as that's just the first five minutes!
Along comes an escaped convict (crazy things just happen out of the blue in a lot of these old silent comedies) who sees Buster lying the ground, having knocked himself out with a golf ball. The convict switches clothing and now Buster is wearing stripes. Cops notice him (HE didn't notice what he was wearing?!) and begin chasing him. Buster winds up back at the penitentiary. Since he's wearing number 13 on his jail outfit, he's scheduled to be hanged the next day. His girlfriend saves him by putting elastic gymnasium rope in place of the noose, so Buster bounces up and down after the trap door operates. Watching all of this are the other inmates who are sitting in bleachers while a vendor sells peanuts and popcorn.
It goes on from there, with a prison riot the next day and Buster and some humongous goon knocking out a bunch of uniformed guards and the other prisoners via some strange methods. It's pure disjointed chaos but it makes for a wild and fun 20-minute film.