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Classic Hollywood

The Balloonatic

26m

Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1923 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Babe London, Phyllis Haver

Buster takes a wild hot-air-balloon ride and finds misadventure in the great outdoors.

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