The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set…

A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at the sea when he’s caught by pirates.

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.

A mix of guns and mistaken identity leads to chaos in this satirical parody of William S. Hart’s melodramatic westerns, finding Buster in the frozen north – “the last stop…

Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.

In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes…

Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.

Buster clowns around in a blacksmith’s shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys…

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.

A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white…

Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman,…

A bank teller becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.

A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures,…

A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.

Two farmhands compete for the love of the farmer’s daughter.

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in “one week”. A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to…

The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia’s families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.