The Play House
(1921)
★ 6.8 IMDb · 146 votes
Year: 1921
Runtime: 24 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Эдвард Ф. Клайн, Бастер Китон
Cast: Бастер Китон, Эдвард Ф. Клайн, Virginia Fox, Joe Murphy, Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely
Plot
Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.
Portraying more than twenty characters at once--including lively stage actors, an attentive audience, an orchestra, and an entire nine-member minstrel act--Buster Keaton pushes the boundaries of technical artistry and film trickery, in a time when effects really were special. With this in mind--after waking up from a delightful vaudeville dream sequence--Buster realises that he still is the play house's humble general factotum, and he must keep the show up and running amid delusion and disorder, identical twin sisters, Zouave guards, and a rampant orangutan on the loose. But, can a mere gopher yearn for recognition, and perhaps, love?