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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1497

The Rough House

191722 minUnited States
Comedy
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
19:37
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Roscoe Arbuckle / Buster Keaton · Public domain

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Synopsis

A man responds to a burning bed with remarkably little urgency, then struggles to prepare dinner after losing the household cook. Rival servants, improvised cooking methods and dubious guests keep the home in constant disorder.

Cast

DirectorsRoscoe ArbuckleBuster Keaton

Behind the scenes

Arbuckle and Keaton share writing and directing credits as well as appearing on screen. Domestic equipment becomes the material for comic inventions, from firefighting to food preparation.

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