本部黑白短片讲述一对儿新婚燕尔的小夫妻,在一个星期里搭建他们的“便携式新房”的温馨小故事。九号礼拜一:他们开始按序号搭建这座“便携式新房”,可惜弄错了号码;十号礼拜二:七扭八歪极具后现代主义的新房初具规模;往后的几天里,在搭建屋内的过程中,更是发生了诸多意想不到的小插曲;十三号礼拜五,他们终于如期完成了房子的搭建,大摆筵席,可是突如其来的风波,又将如何上演,最后是否会是happy ending呢?
这对儿小夫妇在与房子的“战争”中,忙得不亦乐乎,发生了一连串妙趣横生的轶事,推荐。
上世纪初,白人殖民者开始入侵原始而神秘的北美洲西部地区,C.J.亨特经营的西部石油公司盯上了这里丰富广袤的资源,于是以极其下作的手段攫得了那里的土地使用权,并且强迫世世代代生活在这片土地上的印第安人迅速离开。得知派去的信使被奸商们杀害,部落首领大为震怒,决心杀死侵入领地内的所有白人。
十分不凑巧的是,一个倒霉的白人男青年(巴斯特·基顿 Buster Keaton 饰)盲打雾撞来到这里。印第安人们的敌意让他颇为不安,更没想到对方要将他活活烧死。不过一阵纷乱过后,青年却凭借自己的聪敏才智成为了保护印第安人土地的白面酋长……
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.
Buster Keaton and Virginia Fox play young lovers who live in tenements, the rear of which face each other, with backyards separated by a wooden fence. Their families feud over the lovers' relationship, resulting in much mayhem and slapstick.
The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence sepa...
美国曾经有“家族世仇”的传统,马凯和康菲尔就是两个世代仇杀不止的家族,1810年,约翰·马凯与詹姆斯·康菲尔在雨夜中交火,双双身亡。约翰的遗孀为了让儿子摆脱世仇,带幼子远赴纽约生活,而詹姆斯的父亲则发誓将两个孙子养大以后报仇。
二十年后,威利·马凯(巴斯特·基顿 Buster Keaton 饰)长大成人,他要赶回老家继承父亲的遗产,在经历了一场缓慢又状况百出的火车旅行之后,威利与同行的姑娘维吉妮亚结为朋友。到达目的地的威利拜访维吉妮亚家,而这位姑娘居然是康菲尔一家的小女儿,维吉妮亚的两个哥哥在知晓威利身份以后要加害他,但是“待客之道”的传统让他们不能在家中下手,于是威利赖在康菲尔家中以求自保……
This very Kafka-esque film is Keaton's response to the Fatty Arbuckle scandal.[citation needed] Even though the central character's intentions are good, he cannot win, no matter how inventively he tries. He gets into various scraps with police officers throughout the film. Eventually, he unwittingly throws a bomb into a police parade and ends up being chased by a horde of cops....
两位雇农(基顿与罗伯茨 饰演)同时爱上了农场主的女儿,为此展开争夺战。两个人住在同一间屋子里,里面有许多神奇的机械装置,譬如将床翻个面掉个个放置就变成了钢琴。基顿在逃跑的过程中伪装成一个稻草人,由此也成为这部短片片名的来由。
某富豪财大气粗,高薪聘请专家将他的别墅改造成全自动化现代房屋。拥有植物学博士专业头衔的青年(巴斯特·基顿 Buster Keaton 饰)参加应聘,却在阴差阳错之中和邻座的两人将学位证书搞混,变成了电气学专业的博士。青年有心反悔,但看在富翁女儿貌美如花、亲近可人的份上,也就应承了下来。
不久后,富翁一家驱车度假,留下青年一人改造房屋。他临时抱佛脚,凭借一本电气学基础知识的课本大刀阔斧干了起来。时间转瞬即逝,数日后富翁返回,等待他们的是一座令人难以想象且叹为观止的全自动化现代房屋……
A young man (Buster Keaton) proposes a young woman (Renee Adoree), but her father questions how he might support his daughter after the marriage. The youth informs that he will move to New York, find a job and marry the girl. If he fails, he would commit suicide. Once in the big city, he works in many professions and writes to his girlfriend; and his imaginative girl reads each...
When a large Irish woman falsely accuses Buster of breaking a window he is hauled before a Polish judge who speaks no English and assumes they are there to be married. She takes her new husband home to meet her four gorilla-like brothers.