In Neighbors, Buster Keaton wants to get married, but his trousers keep falling down.
This doesn’t really have a plot at all (Buster wants to marry the girl next door) but instead it’s almost non-stop slapstick action for the full 20 minutes (with a slight interlude for a madcap courtroom scene and a ramshackle wedding).
And also like I said, Buster’s trousers keep falling down.
The final sequence in this, where they’re running around stacked up on each others shoulders for no reason at all, is strangely absurd and kind of wonderful.
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Notes
1. I watched this on blu-ray again, but took the screenshots from this youtube version.
2. I quite liked this one but there’s a few two many blackface jokes for me to be completely comfortable recommending it.
3. By which I mean there’s blackface jokes.
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Film Information
Title: Neighbors
Directors: Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline
Year: 1920
Duration: 18 minutes
Watch: youtube