The High Sign

Name: The High Sign
Director: Buster Keaton
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1921

What A Predicament!

Rating

7.2

Rating

7.2

The Film

The High Sign

What A Predicament!

The Story

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.

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Runtime

21 min

Released Apr 1921

The Ensemble 12