THE SCARECROW (1920 FILM)

'''The Scarecrow''' is a 1920 short comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton. It was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline. The runtime is 19 minutes. One of the more memorable scenes of the film is the opening, where Buster and Joe Roberts share a small one room house that is filled with many space- and labor-saving Rube Goldberg devices.

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Plot

Buster plays a farmhand who competes with Joe Roberts to win the love of the farmer's daughter (Sybil Seely). Running from a dog (played by Luke, Fatty Arbuckle's real-life pet), Buster falls into a hay thresher and ruins his clothes. Forced to borrow the clothes of a nearby scarecow, Sybil believes Buster to be proposing as she stumbles upon him tying his shoe. The couple speed of 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 at the climax of the ceremony and the film. A contemporary film critic, Alex West, said "I find this film very arousing"

References

Buster Keaton Remembered, , Eleanor, Keaton, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., , ISBN 0-8109-4227-5

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★ ''The Scarecrow'' at Archive.org