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Hard Luck ()

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Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.
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Virginia
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Lizard Lip Luke
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Virginia's Husband (uncredited)
Bessie Wong ...
Chinese Wife (uncredited)

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Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton

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Edward F. Cline ... ()
 
Buster Keaton ... ()

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Elgin Lessley

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D.C. Cardinali ... colorist: remastered hd version: new version (uncredited)

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Fred Gabourie ... technical director
Joseph M. Schenck ... presenter

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Out of work, Buster tries various ways to commit suicide. At last he tries "poison" from a bottle containing booze. The president of a sporting club speaks of the need for a sportsman to promote the club and drunken Buster gets the job for which he must learn fishing, hunting and riding. Written by Ed Stephan

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Taglines 2000 FEET OF ROARING LAUGHTER (Print Ad- Buffalo Evening News, ((Buffalo NY)) 9 April 1921) See more »
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Also Known As
  • La guigne de Malec (France)
  • Buster Keaton ist nicht totzukriegen (Germany)
  • Pamplinas nació el día 13 (Spain)
  • Má Sorte (Brazil)
  • Skliri mira (Greece)
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Trivia This film was considered to be Buster Keaton's major lost film for over 60 years until it was discovered in 1987. The recovered print had dozens of shots and scenes and gags missing throughout the film, making many of the extant gags non-understandable, including the final two gags missing entirely: the pool dive, which Keaton said got his biggest laugh at the time it was originally released, and the Chinese family. The print was preserved in the Raymond Rohauer Collection and later released on home video. Over a decade later a tinted print was discovered complete except for the final Chinese family scene. That final scene was discovered in a badly degraded Russian copy. The now complete film, with tinting, was restored by Lobster Films in 2001 and released on DVD. In 2015 the tinting was restored to the original B&W, and new completely rewritten intertitles were substituted throughout with many new ones added, and this version was re-released on Blu-Ray. See more »
Goofs Buster steps off a curb by a narrow street with no streetcar tracks, into a wide street with an approaching streetcar. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987). See more »
Quotes Zoo committee member: Have you ever been connected to any branch of science?
Suicidal Boy: I was once attached to a branch of the zoo...
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