Buster Keaton Movie Rankings
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3.1889
Johnnie loves two things: his train and the lovely Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War breaks out he enlists as a soldier, but it is decided that he is too valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks it is because he is a coward. ... more about General
2
3.1588
"The Navigator", Buster Keaton's most successful feature film, tells the tale of two innocents stranded on a liner that's sailing out to sea. ... more about Navigator
3
3.0177
When Phileas Fogg is challenged to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days, he bets his entire fortune and leaves with a new butler on a world tour. This Victorian adventure has a kicker, the bank of England has been robbed. ... more about Around the World in Eighty Days
4
2.9423
In his first independently produced feature film Buster tells of love and romance through three historical ages: the Stone Age, the Roman Age, and the Modern Age. ... more about Three Ages
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2.9366
William McKay grew up in New York City, ignorant of his family's past in the rural south and the blood feud that lead to his father's death. But now Willie wants to return to the old homestead and reclaim his inheritance. ... more about Our Hospitality
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2.9276
After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. ... more about It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
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2.9245
After becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels, Buster trades in his tintype operation for a movie camera and sets out to impress the girl (and MGM) with his work. ... more about Cameraman
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2.9183
In the riverside town of River Junction, Captain William Canfield (Ernest Torrence) has an old steamship and disputes the passengers with the powerful banker John James King (Tom McGuire), who has a brandy new passenger vessel. William is informed that his unknown son William Canfield Jr. ... more about Steamboat Bill
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2.7929
Buster Keaton's mastery of physical comedy is on superb display in these four amazing short films. The first and longest, COLLEGE, details his exploits as a brainy student who goes to ridiculous lengths to become an athlete in order to impress his sweetheart (Ann Cornwall). ... more about College
10
2.7834
Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish, purchase his freedom. ... more about Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
11
2.6939
Although Cops is one of the all-time great two-reelers, its creator, Buster Keaton, never thought much of it. He felt it was just a run-of-the-mill chase film, which suggests that perhaps Keaton was his own worst critic -- the chase is what gives the film its brilliance. ... more about Cops
12
2.6118
During World War II an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. But he mets Susan Trimble who lives in the house and who is strictly against the sale. ... more about Forever and a Day
13
2.5630
It's turn of the century America when Andrew and Veronica first meet - by crashing into each other. They develop an instant and mutual dislike which intensifies when, later on, Andrew is forced to hire Veronica as a saleslady at Oberkugen's music store. ... more about In the Good Old Summertime
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2.4565
Naive, bookish Professor Post (of Potts College) inherits a huge amount of money and decides that now he can afford to go out and enjoy life. ... more about Speak Easily
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2.3780
Financial broker Jimmie Shannon is nearly bankrupt when an attorney presents grandfather's will leaving him seven million dollars. In order to inherit the money Jimmie must marry before 7 pm on his 27th birthday. ... more about Seven Chances
18
2.3451
Buster and Ward are rivals for Kathryn. Ward steals her father's watch and Buster is blamed. Back at his projectionist's job he dreams himself and everyone else in his life into the movie which is playing. ... more about Sherlock Jr.
19
2.3195
A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him. ... more about Two Girls and a Sailor
Not Available on DVD
20
2.3139
Another installment in the Frankie and Dee Dee beach adventures. Among the musical numbers, the story involves Frankie going on reserve duty. However, he gets jealous, thinking that Dwayne will steal Dee Dee. ... more about How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
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2.3104
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. ... more about Doughboys
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2.2098
Between surfing, partying and miming to cheesy songs, Frankie and the gang find time to enter a parachuting competition, meet a mermaid and rescue a girl singer from the clutches of the evil bikers. ... more about Beach Blanket Bingo
23
2.1917
Buster Keaton's last silent film. Set backstage, this comedy highlights slapstick talents by which all other screen comedies were measured. ... more about Spite Marriage
24
2.0775
A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwelmed by the life of the city, so decides to try his luck somewhere else after a only a few minutes in New York. ... more about Go West
25
2.0532
Chaplin's final American film tells the story of a fading music hall comedian's effort to help a despondent ballet dancer learn both to walk and feel confident about life again. ... more about Limelight
26
1.9816
Set in the mythical town of Dogpatch. Dogpatch has a serious unemployment problem. Men spend their days idling away fishing, and the single women spend time scheming about how to catch their preferred single men come the next Sadie Hawkins Day. ... more about Li'l Abner
Not Available on DVD
27
1.9565
Alfred's father wants him to make of a man of himself so sends him off on a hunting and fishing trip. He doesn't catch or shoot anything, but he does fall in love with a mountain girl. ... more about Battling Butler
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1.9177
Buster bids goodbye to Virginia and all women, sailing away in his "Cupid." Later, without food or water, he is taken on board "The Love Nest" which has a very mean captain. A crewman who spills coffee on the captain's hand is thrown overboard. ... more about Love Nest
30
1.8858
Jeff wants to get married to Virginia, but Virginia won't marry until her older, hard-to-please sister Angelica gets married off first. ... more about Parlor
31
1.8721
Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions. ... more about Character Studies
32
1.8355
Out of work, Buster tries various ways to commit suicide. At last he tries "poison" from a bottle containing booze. ... more about Hard Luck
33
1.8264
Buster and Sybil exit a chapel as newlyweds. Among the gifts is a portable house you easily put together in one week. It doesn't help that Buster's rival for Sybil switches the numbers on the crates containing the house parts. ... more about One Week
34
1.8081
Buster's handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. ... more about Boat
35
1.7988
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. ... more about Film
Not Available on DVD
36
1.7787
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. ... more about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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1.6803
A rich Yank docks his yacht in Mexico and steps ashore for adventure. Meanwhile, Conchita, the local beauty, accepts an engagement ring from the hot-headed Martino, who promises to kill any man who gains her favors. ... more about Pest from the West
38
1.6027
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players. ... more about Hollywood Revue of 1929
Not Available on DVD
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1.5890
Farmhands Keaton and Roberts share a cottage full of mechanical devices for making life easy. They are rivals for the farmer's daughter. Keaton , disguised as a scarecrow, causes troubles for his rival and the farmer. ... more about Scarecrow
41
1.5433
Buster is playing golf with Sybil when he gets knocked out. An escaped prisoner changes clothes with him. Buster goes to prison and learns that he is to be hanged. He changes clothes with a guard just as prisoner Roberts attacks all the guards. ... more about Convict 13
42
1.5068
Nick Van Alstyne owns the Henrietta silver mine and is very rich. His son Bertie is naive and spoiled. His daughter Rose is married to shady investor Mark. Mark wrecks Bertie's wedding plans by making him take the blame for Mark's illegitimate daughter. ... more about Saphead
43
1.5068
Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatarium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft of Norma Shearer's jewelry. ... more about Slippery Pearls
44
1.2007
Gogo, a Martian teenager, is sent to Earth to prepare the way for an invasion. The first Earthling he meets, one Aunt Wendy, is a rich widow who runs a dress shop catering to teenagers. ... more about Pajama Party
45
0.0001
A man working in a clock repair shop meets a woman who brings in her watch to be fixed. When the watch has been repaired, he personally delivers it to her, and soon after that they go to the circus together. ... more about Allez Oop
46
0.0001
Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon which lands Buster in the wilderness proves useful later on as their canoe is about go over a waterfall. ... more about Balloonatic
47
0.0001
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. ... more about Blacksmith
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Buster goes away to the city to prove to his girl's father he can succeed. He writes her of his various jobs which she glorifies in her imagination. ... more about Daydreams
51
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In May 1943, two American soldiers, Joe and Frank, of Italian descent are searching the North African desert for a German general called Von Kassler, when they are captured by Von Kassler aide Inge Schultze who lets them escape with fake war plans, only ... more about Two Marines and a General
Not Available on DVD
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Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira with an agent, Gopher City's own Elmer J. Butz. Elmer likes Elvira and the shy Elvira likes him, but Mrs. ... more about Free and Easy
54
0.0001
This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing a gambling house. ... more about Frozen North
55
0.0001
Lee Preston, aka Leland Bruce (Robert Lowery) kills a man in self defense but flees to the redwood country when the law makes it a murder charge. ... more about God's Country
Not Available on DVD
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58
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Buster is a bank clerk. Overturned glue gets everything, mostly the money, stuck to everything else. When robbers show up he can't "stick 'em up" because his hands are stuck in his pockets. ... more about Haunted House
59
60
0.0001
Michael Linnett Connors takes Molly Adair from Broadway understudy to 1913 Hollywood star. Although she is in love with him, she marries her co-star reckoning wrongly Connors thinks of her only in terms of movies. ... more about Hollywood Cavalcade
Not Available on DVD
61
0.0001
Two out-of-towners take an automobile tour of Hollywood to see the private lives of some celebrities. ... more about Hollywood Hobbies
62
63
0.0001
A businessman and his partner are about to go bankrupt when the partner gets an idea to sail away and somehow find the money they need. Meanwhile, the one left behind has to figure out how to put off all the creditors, friends, family, investors, etc. ... more about Lovable Cheat
Not Available on DVD
64
0.0001
Buster is the eldest son in a family of hillbillies who manage a hotel. When Ma announces that the bank is about to foreclose on the mortgage, Buster attempts to raise the necessary $350 by selling a trailer which was left behind by a former guest. ... more about Love Nest on Wheels
Not Available on DVD
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68
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In the final days of WWII, an earnest but somewhat dense sailor (played by Buster Keaton) is lost at sea. ... more about A Modern Bluebeard
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69
0.0001
Two old soldiers, Jeb and Homer, chat about the Civil War. Homer tells his story of being a Kentucky youth, who enlists with the South only to discover that his brother has joined the Blues. ... more about Mooching Through Georgia
70
0.0001
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. ... more about My Wife's Relations
71
0.0001
The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings. ... more about Neighbors
72
0.0001
Penelope Plunkett wants her husband to keep their old car and use their savings to buy a house, but her husband Clarence has a better idea: sell the car, take a bus trip to Detroit, buy a new car there, and still have money left over for a romantic road ... more about Nothing But Pleasure
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74
0.0001
Evil oil barons have given the Indians one day to vacate their land. The Indian chief tells his braves to kill the first white man they see. Buster shows up chasing a butterfly. ... more about Paleface
75
0.0001
A hillbilly family, hard-hit by the end of Prohibition, decide to set the biggest brother up as a professional wrestler. ... more about Palooka from Paducah
Not Available on DVD
76
77
0.0001
Elmer Tuttle, a plumber in Paris, is enlisted by beautiful Patricia Alden to help her make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. Tony, however, is two-timing Patricia with Nina Estrados. ... more about Passionate Plumber
Not Available on DVD
78
0.0001
The opening scene, a dream sequence prior to the vaudeville routines which follow, is what makes this film famous. In it Keaton plays everyone in a theatre simultaneously (through multiple exposures). ... more about Playhouse
Not Available on DVD
79
0.0001
After reading an newspaper advertisement in the London Times about touring Canada, an elderly Englishman decides to do just that. ... more about Railrodder
80
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Elsie, an oil heiress being wooed by a phony foreign nobleman, takes refuge in a plumbing shop where Buster and Monty are working on a boiler. They hide her and, in appreciation, Elsie offers Buster the job of fixing the shower in her home. ... more about She's Oil Mine
88
0.0001
The handyman is finishing getting the Island Inn Café ready for opening night: it's a speakeasy, and the owner, Louie the Wolf, has been warned by the local mob kingpin, Slugger McGraw, not to open. ... more about So You Won't Squawk
89
0.0001
When a magician, Mordini (Lynton Brent) becomes fearful of his magic secrets being stolen, he hires Buster (Buster Keaton) and Elsie (Elsie Anes) to protect his props. ... more about Spook Speaks
90
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
91
0.0001
The police are hunting for a jewel thief. Two detectives follow a suspect who ducks into Keaton's Snappy Hats, where all hats are four-thirds off. ... more about Taming of the Snood
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96
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A low budget industrial film shot for the Eastman Kodak company in 1963, The Triumph Of Lester Snapwell is a mildly funny film that shows all the troubles of a man named Lester Snapwell (Keaton), who, in the late 1860's, tries to photograph his ... more about Triumph of Lester Snapwell
Not Available on DVD
97
0.0001
The widow Wilson and her daughter Mary have just learned that old Mr. Middleton, who held the mortgage on their home, has passed away. ... more about Villain Still Pursued Her
98
0.0001
Kenneth Harlan and the Sisters G give the audience a look at George Olsen's Supper Club, and together they view a musical presentation. Two unidentified actors, made up to look and act like Laurel and Hardy, serve as waiters. ... more about Voice of Hollywood No. 26
Not Available on DVD
99
0.0001
Although he has never met her, Elmer Butts loves Hortense secretly and from afar. He dreams of making a million dollars so he can buy her a Rolls automobile and marry her. ... more about What! No Beer?
Not Available on DVD
100
0.0001
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. ... more about You're My Everything
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