Buster Keaton (foreground).     Photo: Silent Era low-res collection.

Cast: Buster Keaton [William McKay], Natalie Talmadge [Virginia Canfield], Joe Roberts [Joseph Canfield], Ralph Bushman [Clayton Canfield], Craig Ward [Lee Canfield], Monte Collins [Reverend Benjamin Dorsey], Joe Keaton (Joseph Keaton) [Lem Doolittle], Kitty Bradbury [Aunt Mary], Buster Keaton Jr. [William Canfield, as baby]; Leonard Clapham [James Canfield], Edward Coxen (Ed Coxen) [John McKay], Jean Dumas [Mrs. McKay], James Duffy [Sam Gardner], Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Buster Keaton Productions, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Scenario by Jean Havez, Clyde Bruckman and Joseph Mitchell. Art direction by Fred Gabourie. Costume design by Walter Israel. Lighting by Denver Harmon. Cinematography by Elgin Lessley and Gordon Jennings. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / © 20 November 1923 by Buster Keaton Productions, Incorporated [LP19675]. Premiere 3 November 1923. Released 19 November 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / [?] Dardis-Keaton p. 101 notes that location work on this film was done in Lake Tahoe, Oregon.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.4057.

Survival Status: Print exists [35mm positive].

Keywords: Chases - Crime: Murder - Female impersonation - Feuds - Inheritances - Musical instruments: Pianofortes - Rescues - Rivers - USA: Oregon - USA: Pacific Northwest - Waterfalls - Weapons: Guns

Listing updated: 27 July 2006.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F2 n. F2.4057; Bardèche-History pp. 292, 293; Brownlow-Parade pp. 357, 476, 488; Dardis-Keaton pp. 97-102, 113, 219, 290-291; Everson-American p. 272; Fell-History p. 96; Kerr-Silent pp. 21, 213, 216-217, 219, 222, 229, 237, 242, 244, 253; Limbacher-Feature p. 182; Maltin-Guide p. 948; Poague-Capra p. 26; Schelly-Langdon pp. 11, 56; Shipman-Cinema p. 80; Sinyard-Silent p. 115; Skretvedt-LaurelHardy pp. 336, 338.

Home Video: DVD.