Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 45 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
- pickpocket
- amateur detective
- slapstick comedy
- jungle
- black and white
- motorcycle
- false accusations
- silent film
- projectionist
- booby trap
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Buster Keaton
Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.
Kathryn McGuire
The Girl
Joe Keaton
The Girl's Father / Man on Film Screen
Erwin Connelly
The Hired Man / The Butler
- Ward Crane — The Local Sheik / The Villain
- Doris Deane — Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema (uncredited)
- Christine Francis — Candy Store Girl (uncredited)
- George Davis — Conspirator (uncredited)
- Kewpie Morgan — Conspirator (uncredited)
- Steve Murphy — Conspirator (uncredited)
- John Patrick — Conspirator (uncredited)
- Betsy Ann Hisle — Little Girl (uncredited)
- Ford West — Theatre Manager / Gillette (uncredited)
- Jane Connelly — The Mother (uncredited)
- Directed
- Buster Keaton
Production
- Studio
- Metro Pictures Corporation, Buster Keaton Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
