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The Scarecrow | |
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Directed by | Edward F. Cline Buster Keaton |
Written by | Edward F. Cline Buster Keaton |
Produced by | Joseph M. Schenck |
Starring | Buster Keaton Sybil Seely Joe Keaton Joe Roberts |
Cinematography | Elgin Lessley |
Edited by | Buster Keaton |
Distributed by | Metro Pictures |
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Running time | 21 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Scarecrow is a 1920 American two-reel silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton, and written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline.[2]
Buster plays a farmhand who competes with his housemate (Roberts) to win the love of the farmer's daughter (Sybil Seely). Running from a dog that he believes is rabid, he races around brick walls, jumps through windows, and falls into a hay thresher that rips off most of his clothes. He is forced to borrow a scarecrow's clothes in a nearby field. He then trips into a kneeling position while tying his shoes, and Sybil believes he is proposing marriage. They speed off on a motorcycle, with Joe and the farmer (played by Buster's father, Joe) in hot pursuit. Scooping up a minister during the chase, they are married on the speeding motorcycle and splash into a stream, where they are pronounced man and wife.