"The Scarecrow" is a 1920 silent black-and-white comedy starring Buster Keaton, one of the most famous actors of his era. Joe Roberts is also in this one again playing as always the antagonist to KeatonÄs character. This time the two are farm workers and they compete for the love of a girl. Who is gonna get her? Or is another husband gonna show up as it also happened in Keaton's films. Keaton also wrote and directed here, once again together with Edward F. Cline, his regular collaborator. Cline also plays a minor character again in here as he often does. Keaton struggles not only in his attempts to get the girl, but also with a couple farm dogs, including one of the most famous animal actors from that day, and also with the other farm workers who just try to do their job. The female lead is not played by Virginia Fox this time, but instead by Sybil Seely, who was just as young as Fox in 1920. All in all, not a great or very funny short film. Watch something else instead.
Review of The Scarecrow
