Buster Keaton ONE WEEK (Laurel & Hardy) SHORT CLASSIC

----- Note: Copyright issues are an important matter to us! We use content that has been licensed. if you feel your copyright is infringened, please send us an email so we can handle this directly. The story involves two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, who receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates. The movie recounts Keaton's struggle to assemble the house according to this new "arrangement". The end result is depicted in the picture. As if this were not enough, Keaton finds he has built his house on the wrong site and has to move it. The movie reaches its tense climax when the house becomes stuck on railroad tracks. Keaton and Seely try to move it out the way of an oncoming train, which eventually passes on the neighboring track. As the couple look relieved, the house is immediately struck and demolished by another train coming the other way. Keaton stares at the scene, places a 'For Sale' sign with the heap (attaching the building instructions) and walks off with Seely.

The New York Times movie review said, "One Week, a Buster Keaton work, has more fun in it than most slap-stick, trick-property comedies."

[Stone]

Those stunts, what a bloke, not to mention the comedy, 101 plus years ago and still entertaining. 👏👏 👏 Buster, his fellow cast and production team. may you all RiP.

[TorQueMoD]

First time I've watched a Buster Keaton movie. This was fantastic and a great intro to a legend!

[isaiahchapman]

I remember going to my state fair, and they were showing this film with a live piano player. It started my love for Black and White Silent Pictures.

[danielhall]

having the first train miss and then the house getting hit by another just as you think it's an anti-climax is really funny

[christopherstilley]

I've long noticed that the, Keaton and Harold Lloyd comedies alongside with their leading ladies, in spite of the action and technicalities of the humor, manage to also be far more romantic than many so called straight romantic movies.

[lesafowers]

This film a hundred years later is still the best! Buster Keaton is the most beloved caracter actor that ever existed. I love all his work so much. I laugh, cry and clap the whole way through. 👏👏👏

[picklesthewise]

Amazing. This film is 100 years old and is still preserved for us to enjoy today.

[tomajortom]

The bathtub scene is unforgettable. Keaton was a genius.

[asmodeus]

Buster Keaton was brilliant, absolutely brilliant. How could anyone not like this?

[johnferguson]

That was absolutely incredible especially when the actors had to do all the stunts themselves.. Also the organ accompaniment added a touch of how the film would have been seen originally in many of the larger theatres and was really great.

[ianjohnson]

A legendary short, and dear god was Sybil Seely a stunning beauty.

[zerocow]

In Keaton's worldview, a character is like a two-dimensional character wandering in a three-dimensional world. After enduring the suspense of a two-dimensional character falling into danger in a three-dimensional world, and then seeing unexpected results surprise, the audience feels as if they are in a higher world than them.

[BethBurns]

103 years later, this is still so funny! I loved all the stunts and gags!

[cinemasage]

i got very lucky to see this on the big screen. i was around seven years old or so and later on watched a really great documentary on Keaton. Keaton's short films were nothing more but pure masterpieces.

[arrausem]

crazy how this is still so funny !! Buster Keaton was truly a master of cinema

[JAProductions]

Can we all agree that Handy Hank created the cinematic villain
I mean, he’s a true irredeemable monster 😂

[nestorchikoti]

He was not only a genius, but his athleticism was unbelievable... and countless scenes where he risks his life and yet retains that stoic, deadpanned expression. There will never be another like him.

[Nakamichi_Jun]

14:35 lol proof you dont need pixels to make a scene family oriented, 1920s style!

[kat]

Absolutely wonderful. Thanks for posting this.

[firrefisken]

this was much more funny than most modern day comedy and enjoyed every secound of it!!