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Convict 13

192020 minUnited States
Comedy
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
21:41
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No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton · Public domain

Synopsis

A disastrous round of golf leaves Buster unconscious and gives an escaped convict the chance to exchange clothes with him. Mistaken for a condemned prisoner, he enters a jail where uniforms repeatedly change their meaning. Avoiding the gallows is only the beginning of his struggle to escape.

Cast

DirectorsEdward F. ClineBuster Keaton

Behind the scenes

Keaton and Edward F. Cline build the two-reel comedy around substitutions, elastic physical gags and a prison revolt. Buster's apparent authority depends on which clothes he happens to be wearing.

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