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Classic Hollywood

One Week

22m

Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1920 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely

Buster Keaton’s first short as an independent producer displays his daredevil innovation as a pair of newlyweds struggle to assemble their prefab house.

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