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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1386

Neighbors

192018 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 18:39
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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

Synopsis

Two young lovers communicate across the fence separating their hostile families. Even legal permission to marry cannot settle the feud, so the boy turns to acrobatics to reach the girl and escape their quarrelling parents.

Cast

Buster Keaton

Virginia Fox

Joe Roberts

Joe Keaton

Edward F. Cline

Jack Duffy

DirectorsEdward F. Cline Buster Keaton

Behind the scenes

Keaton builds the comedy around adjoining tenements, a fence, windows and clotheslines. Joe Keaton, his father, joins the cast of a story driven by family interference.

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Photograph credit

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Buster Keaton — Unknown author · Public domain
Virginia Fox — Unknown photographer; The Blacksmith (1922); J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, University of Washington Libraries, SAYRE 657 / Wikimedia Commons. Prior crop by Commons contributors. · Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired)
Joe Roberts — Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research · Public domain
Joe Keaton — Nyvall, N.Y.; Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Buster Keaton scrapbook http://digitalcollections.oscars.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15759coll8/id/351 · Public domain
Edward F. Cline — Evans (L.A.); Motion Picture News (Mar. - Jun. 1920) at the Internet Archive · Public domain

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