Characters & Themes
The High Sign (1921) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1921 · 21 mins
- Directed by
- Edward F. Cline
- Starring
- Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Joe Roberts, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety, Ingram B. Pickett
Buster is ejected from a train near an amusement park and, seeking work, takes a job at a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. When his bosses order him to kill a businessman, he instead protects the man and his daughter, rigging their home with clever, improvised devices to keep them safe.
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