The Goat (1921)
- Directed by
- Malcolm St. Clair, Buster Keaton
- Genre
- comedy film, silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 23 min
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 174 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man is mistaken for a murderer and chased by a posse. He gets tangled up with the policeman leading the hunt, who happens to be the father of the woman he loves.
slapstickfast-pacedlightheartedplayfulwhimsicalchase-filleddeadpan
What happens
The Goat is a 1921 American two-reel silent comedy film written, and co-directed by Malcolm St. Clair and Buster Keaton and starring Keaton. The comic premise for The Goat emerges as a series of mistaken identities in which Keaton is mistaken for a murderer who is pursued by a posse. Keaton’s love interest is the daughter of the policeman leading the manhunt. This short contains one of Keaton's more memorable images: a distant, speeding train approaches the camera, and stops with a close-up of Keaton, who has been sitting on the front of the locomotive's cowcatcher. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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