Buster Keaton.
Sherlock Jr. publicity still. Buster Keaton.
Buster Keaton’s Electric House. In a case of mistaken academic identity, Buster — a botanist — gets hired as an electrical engineer to install electricity in someone’s house. Of course our hero sees creative opportunity where one might expect simple things like, oh, lights and outlets. Instead he installs inventions not yet designed for home use: automated dishwashers and stair cases, both of which inevitably fail in Keaton-esque comical style.
Buster Keaton playing a washed-up silent screen star in Sunset Boulevard (Wilder 1950).
Buster Keaton
