Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.
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Cast verified as complete
| Buster Keaton | ... |
The Boat Builder
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| Edward F. Cline | ... |
SOS Receiver (uncredited)
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| Sybil Seely | ... |
The Boat Builder's Wife (uncredited)
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Directed by
| Edward F. Cline | ... | (as Eddie Cline) |
| Buster Keaton | ... | (as 'Buster' Keaton) |
Written by
| Buster Keaton | ... | (written by) (as 'Buster' Keaton) and |
| Edward F. Cline | ... | (written by) (as Eddie Cline) |
Music by
| Robert Israel | ... | (1995) |
Cinematography by
| Elgin Lessley | ... | (uncredited) |
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| D.C. Cardinali | ... | colorist: remastered hd version: new version (uncredited) |
Music Department
| Robert Israel | ... | musical director: 1995 edition |
Additional Crew
| Joseph M. Schenck | ... | presenter |
| Fred Gabourie | ... | technical director (uncredited) |
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- First National Pictures (1921) (United States) (theatrical)
- Jump Imperial Pictures (1922) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Andrés Vicente Gómez Montero (1982) (Spain) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Image Entertainment (1995) (United States) (video) (laserdisc)
- Kino Video (1995) (United States) (VHS) (Included with "The Navigator" and "The Love Nest" in "The Art of Buster Keaton Volume 2" boxed set)
- Kino Video (1999) (United States) (DVD)
- Eureka Entertainment (2001) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- Kino Video (2001) (United States) (DVD) (on 'The Art of Buster Keaton')
- Image Entertainment (2002) (United States) (DVD)
- Reel Media International (2004) (World-wide) (VHS)
- REX Film (2006) (Germany) (DVD)
- Reel Media International (2007) (World-wide)
- Epoca (Argentina) (VHS)
- Mill Creek Entertainment (United States) (DVD)
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Storyline
| Plot Summary |
Buster's handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. At the harbor he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. The rest is a series of adventures he and his family have with the restored boat.
Written by Ed Stephan |
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| Taglines | The boat carries a cargo of laughter explosives through an ocean full of Ticklish Tarpons. from stem to stern there are more ha-ha! and he-he! provokers than a sailor with a hipload of boiler fuel. (Print Ad- Evening Capitol, ((Annapolis, Md.)) 30 March 1922) See more » |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | When James Mason bought Buster Keaton's old house in 1952, he found this film and several other lost Keaton shorts in the cellar. As the rolls were nitrate, disintegration had taken its toll. Mason made sure that this and the other classics were saved and restored at a film lab. See more » |
| Goofs | The radio mast that Keaton erects on the boat is missing in the shots of the boat model. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Edited into The Golden Age of Buster Keaton (1979). See more » |
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SOS Receiver:
Who is it? The Boat Builder: Damfino. SOS Receiver: Neither do I! See more » |