Edward F. Cline

In the Next Room

Edward F. Cline

The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting then moves to 1929, just as an antiques dealer Philip Vantine (John St. Polis) has finished moving into the same house where the 1889 murder occurred.

Broadway Fever

Edward F. Cline

Sally O'Neil, Roland Drew

The BFI holds a fragment of the film.

Sunshine

Edward F. Cline

Jack Cooper, Hank Mann

A 1916 short starring Jack Cooper, Hank Mann & Bobby Dunn.

One Week

Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely

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 Scarecrow

Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts

Buster competes with another farmhand for the love of the farmer's daughter.

The Goat

Malcolm St. Clair, Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox

A series of adventures begins when Buster is mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the evil bad guy.

Neighbors

Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox

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.

Cops

Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

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.

The High Sign

Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett

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, he winds up protecting the man and his daughter by outfitting their home with trick devices.

Jiggs and Maggie in Society

Edward F. Cline

Joe Yule, Renie Riano

Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of Dinty Moore on 10th Avenue.

The Play House

Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.

Sweet Mama

Edward F. Cline

Alice White, David Manners

A young girl falls in love with a member of a gang of crooks. She determines to bring the rest of the gang to justice so she can save the man she loves.

The Boat

Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

Buster's handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. At the harbor he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. The rest is a series of adventures he and his family have with the restored boat.

The Bank Dick

Edward F. Cline

W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.

The Electric House

Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox

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

Convict 13

Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely

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