Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.
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Symona Boniface
- Train Passenger
- (uncredited)
Lynton Brent
- Train Passenger
- (uncredited)
Stanley Brown
- Newlywed
- (uncredited)
Ned Glass
- Wedding Guest in Train Station
- (uncredited)
Bud Jamison
- Train Conductor
- (uncredited)
Isabel La Mal
- Mary's Aunt
- (uncredited)
Eddie Laughton
- Train Passenger
- (uncredited)
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson
- Angry Man in Pullman Berth
- (uncredited)
Eva McKenzie
- Ma
- (uncredited)
Cy Schindell
- Al Spumoni, mobster
- (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
- Train Porter
- (uncredited)
Victor Travis
- Train Passenger
- (uncredited)
John Tyrrell
- Train Passenger
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
- Train Passenger
- (uncredited)
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One of the funnier Colmbia-Keaton shorts
This film has been called a waste of Buster Keaton. Is it the best possible use of Buster Keaton's particular talents? Probably not -- but it is a very funny short comedy that Keaton's presence only serves to enhance. Curiously, while there is a non-stop stream of gags and jokes that keeps the film moving (and keeps it funny) all the way through, there is perhaps more plot here than a two-reeler of this kind requires. Most of it needlessly complicates the short and can be overlooked.
Even if all the gags are not characteristic of Keaton's character (and many of them actually are) they are almost all effective, and there's a good mix of varieties of humor -- puns (the "Merry Christmas" jokes), situation (Buster mistaken for a newlywed), and, of course, physical comedy (Buster's tumbling around the sleeping carriage with the air of a master).
My favorite gag here and maybe my favorite of what I've seen of Columbia's Keaton series so far is totally sound based (and surprisingly risqué): Buster's fight with his parrot, complete with exclamations of "You bad girl!" and "There was no need to bite my toe!" are dismissed by the other passengers as merely what's to be expected of a pair of newlyweds.
Definitely worth watching for some good laughs.
Even if all the gags are not characteristic of Keaton's character (and many of them actually are) they are almost all effective, and there's a good mix of varieties of humor -- puns (the "Merry Christmas" jokes), situation (Buster mistaken for a newlywed), and, of course, physical comedy (Buster's tumbling around the sleeping carriage with the air of a master).
My favorite gag here and maybe my favorite of what I've seen of Columbia's Keaton series so far is totally sound based (and surprisingly risqué): Buster's fight with his parrot, complete with exclamations of "You bad girl!" and "There was no need to bite my toe!" are dismissed by the other passengers as merely what's to be expected of a pair of newlyweds.
Definitely worth watching for some good laughs.
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- Sep 2, 2009
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- Runtime20 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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