Here is a delightful short film featuring Buster Keaton. The special effects in the dream sequence were pretty good considering this was over 90 years ago. Such as when his spirit-like "dream self" emerges from his body while he sleeps on the job. Also, he jumps through a lady and vanishes.
I like that he does his own stunts. He runs across the top of the train and jumps down the water tower. I heard from someone that he got injured doing this stunt. I am too tired to verify this. Also, he rides on the handlebars of a motorcycle all across the countryside. I didn't know anyone could do that. I thought you had to hold on to the handlebars in order to keep the engine running. I've ridden on motorcycles but never driven one myself. Oh, and he gets stuck on the roof and jumps on the railroad gate and sails down. Look:
That was neat. I'm glad this was only 45 minutes because there was not enough story to keep it going any longer. I'm going to give this a 6/10 because for a physical comedy, there wasn't a lot of comedy. If I wanted to watch an action-filled comedy, I would choose a Stephen Chow/Jackie Chan film over this any day.
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