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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'''}} |
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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 |
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]]. |
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This movie is available in its entirety at [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3103572883050130476# Google video.] |
This movie is available in its entirety at [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3103572883050130476# Google video.] |
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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. |
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* [[Produce Pelting]] |
* [[Produce Pelting]] |
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* [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]]: Employed by the counterfeiters to protect their hideout. |
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* [[Stairway to Heaven]] |
* [[Stairway to Heaven]] |
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* [[Sticky Situation]] |
* [[Sticky Situation]] |
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[[Category:Films of the 1920s]] |
[[Category:Films of the 1920s]] |
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[[Category:The Haunted House]] |
[[Category:The Haunted House]] |
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The bank cashier and his band of counterfeiters have a strong reason for making people believe this house is haunted.
—intertitle
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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 Google video.
"The Haunted House" provides examples of:
- Agony of the Feet: How the bank teller establishes that the satanic-looking gent is not the Devil.
- Bank Robbery: Attempted.
- Bavarian Fire Drill: The teller starts blowing a whistle and directing the "ghosts" like a traffic cop -- and they obey.
- Bedsheet Ghost
- Bookcase Passage
- Clear My Name
- Counterfeit Cash
- Dressing As the Enemy
- Help I'm Stuck
- Improvised Weapon: A tossed vase.
- The Klutz
- Man On Fire: Twice, neither time serious.
- Le Parkour: Motivated by terror, the teller performs some impressive climbing and vaulting.
- Plucky Girl: The bank president's daughter tracks the chief villain to his lair.
- Produce Pelting
- Scooby-Doo Hoax: Employed by the counterfeiters to protect their hideout.
- Stairway to Heaven
- Sticky Situation
- Surprise Slide Staircase
- The Stoic
- Trap Door