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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1532

My Wife's Relations

192222 minUnited States
Comedy
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
26:26
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

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

Synopsis

A judicial mistake leaves Buster married to a domineering stranger. Her hostile father and brothers make the unexpected household an exhausting place to negotiate for space and independence.

Cast

DirectorsBuster KeatonEdward F. Cline

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Keaton and Edward F. Cline direct a comedy in which the family itself becomes the obstacle. The restored source presents the story with reconstructed English intertitles.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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