Hard Luck (1921)

Directed by

Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline

Genre

comedy film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

22 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 102 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Buster Keaton plays a man down on his luck who gets into a series of misadventures. He tries different jobs and schemes, each ending in comic disaster.

comedicslapsticklightheartedquirkyfast-pacedplayfulpicaresqueold-fashioned

What happens

Hard Luck is a 1921 American two-reel silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton, written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline. It runs 22 minutes. For sixty years it was Keaton's only major lost film until it was partially reconstructed in 1987, with the critical final scene—which Keaton called the greatest laugh-getting scene of his career—still missing. It was later discovered in a Russian archive print, and now the full film is available. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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