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Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.
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- 1 nomination
Buster Keaton
- Farmhand
- (as 'Buster' Keaton)
Edward F. Cline
- Hit-and-Run Truck Driver
- (uncredited)
Luke the Dog
- The Dog
- (uncredited)
Joe Keaton
- Farmer
- (uncredited)
Joe Roberts
- Farmhand
- (uncredited)
Sybil Seely
- Farmer's Daughter
- (uncredited)
Al St. John
- Man with Motorbike
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaBuster Keaton's father Joe Keaton plays the role of the farmer.
- GoofsKeaton, being chased by a dog, jumps into a large pile of straw. Shortly after that, there's a noticeable cut because a substantial amount of straw is missing from the middle after the edit.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Golden Age of Buster Keaton (1979)
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One of Buster Keaton's greatest silent shorts...
The Scarecrow is one of Buster Keaton's greatest silent shorts. In twenty minutes it catches us up in rapture, filled with cheer, humor, romance good nature, and a true and innocent sense of small town farm life. The film contains some of Keaton's most incredible acrobatics as he runs around on top of a ten-foot brick wall, handstands his way through a river of mud to avoid getting his clothes dirty (he, of course, falls in some mud once he gets to the end of the muddy river), is chased by a dog (the payoff of the chase scene is one of the funniest gags in any silent comedy, a brilliant satire of the way silent clowns insist on creating trouble for themselves), and on and on and on and on. As the film is almost coming to a close, Keaton is about to be married. But the film is not done with us yet; instead of merely watching the couple ride off into the sunset, Keaton boldly follows them to the sunset as the two get married on a speeding motorbike. For twenty minutes, I forgot about the time I wasted watching Go West.
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- Oct 29, 2004
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- Fågelskrämman
- Filming locations
- 618 Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA(motorcycle with sidecar scenes)
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- Runtime19 minutes
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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