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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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