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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1381

The Love Nest

192320 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 23:33
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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

Synopsis

Heartbroken, Buster leaves home by boat and ends up aboard a whaling ship. A captain who throws troublesome crew members overboard makes his new job dangerous, while his attempts to escape create problems of their own.

Cast

Buster Keaton

Joe Roberts

Virginia Fox

DirectorsBuster Keaton

Historical context

This was Keaton's final short for First National before his move into feature production. The sea voyage gives his character a new setting for familiar conflicts with machinery and authority.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Buster Keaton — Unknown author · Public domain
Joe Roberts — Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research · 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)

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