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Classic Hollywood

Hard Luck

23m

Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1921 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

A despondent young man finds that suicide isn’t as easy as it seems.

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