THE SCARECROW (1920)

Directed by: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

Starring: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Joe Keaton, Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely, Al St. John, Luke the Dog

20 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Buster plays a farmhand who competes with his housemate to win the love of the farmer's daughter. Running from a dog that he believes is rabid, he races around brick walls, jumps through windows, and falls into a hay thresher that rips off most of his clothes. He is forced to borrow a scarecrow's clothes in a nearby field. He then trips into a kneeling position while tying his shoes, and Sybil believes he is proposing marriage. They speed off on a motorcycle, with Joe and the farmer in hot pursuit. Scooping up a minister during the chase, they are married on the speeding motorcycle and splash into a stream, where they are pronounced man and wife.

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