The High Sign

Apr 18, 1921

0h 21m

★ 7.1

What A Predicament!

Overview

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.

Genres

Crime

Comedy

Production Companies

Joseph M. Schenck Productions

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Cast

Our Hero

Buster Keaton

Miss Nickelnurser

Bartine Burkett

Gang Member

Charles Dorety

Leader of Buzzards

Joe Roberts

Man On Beach

Al St. John

Tiny Tim

Ingram B. Pickett

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