THE BLACKSMITH (1922) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
Buster Keaton plays a blacksmith at a time when blacksmiths were still shoeing horses, but also fixing cars. Much of the humor revolves around a white horse and a white automobile and what happens when they both end up in a blacksmith shop in the hands of Buster Keaton. Toward the end, it moves out of the shop and speeds up and gets crazy and the gags fly out in all directions, testing the limits of how much comic material a two-reel movie can reasonably contain.
