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{{quote|''The bank cashier and his band of counterfeiters have a strong reason for making people believe this house is haunted.''|'''intertitle'''}}
{{quote|''The bank cashier and his band of counterfeiters have a strong reason for making people believe this house is haunted.''|'''intertitle'''}}


In this 1921 short, [[Buster Keaton]] plays a bank teller who is accused of passing [[Counterfeit Cash]] and attempted [[Bank Robbery]]. While fleeing the law, he stumbles across the real culprits' hideout, a [[Scooby Doo Hoax|phony haunted house]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
In this 1921 short, [[Buster Keaton]] plays a bank teller who is accused of passing [[Counterfeit Cash]] and attempted [[Bank Robbery]]. While fleeing the law, he stumbles across the real culprits' hideout, a [[Scooby-Doo Hoax|phony haunted house]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

This movie is available in its entirety at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfBz2rhIR4g YouTube], or [[{{PAGENAME}}/Source|here, on this very wiki.]]


This movie is available in its entirety at [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3103572883050130476# Google video.]
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=== "The Haunted House" provides examples of: ===
* [[Agony of the Feet]]: How the bank teller establishes that the satanic-looking gent is not the Devil.
* [[Agony of the Feet]]: How the bank teller establishes that the satanic-looking gent is not the Devil.
* [[Bank Robbery]]: Attempted.
* [[Bank Robbery]]: Attempted.
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* [[Clear My Name]]
* [[Clear My Name]]
* [[Counterfeit Cash]]
* [[Counterfeit Cash]]
* [[Dressing As the Enemy]]
* [[Dressing as the Enemy]]
* [[Help I'm Stuck]]
* [[Help, I'm Stuck!]]
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: A tossed vase.
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: A tossed vase.
* [[The Klutz]]
* [[The Klutz]]
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* [[Plucky Girl]]: The bank president's daughter tracks the chief villain to his lair.
* [[Plucky Girl]]: The bank president's daughter tracks the chief villain to his lair.
* [[Produce Pelting]]
* [[Produce Pelting]]
* [[Scooby Doo Hoax]]: Employed by the counterfeiters to protect their hideout.
* [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]]: Employed by the counterfeiters to protect their hideout.
* [[Stairway to Heaven]]
* [[Stairway to Heaven]]
* [[Sticky Situation]]
* [[Sticky Situation]]
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[[Category:Films of the 1920s]]
[[Category:Films of the 1920s]]
[[Category:The Haunted House]]
[[Category:The Haunted House]]
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Latest revision as of 01:15, 5 October 2020
The bank cashier and his band of counterfeiters have a strong reason for making people believe this house is haunted.
—intertitle

In this 1921 short, Buster Keaton plays a bank teller who is accused of passing Counterfeit Cash and attempted Bank Robbery. While fleeing the law, he stumbles across the real culprits' hideout, a phony haunted house. Hilarity Ensues.

This movie is available in its entirety at YouTube, or here, on this very wiki.

Tropes used in The Haunted House include:
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