One Week (1920 film)

One Week is a 1920 American short comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton, the first film to be released made by Keaton on his own Keaton had worked with Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle for a number of years. The film was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline, and runs forminutes. Sybil Seely costars. The High Sign had been filmed prior to One Week, but Keaton considered it an inferior effort to debut with, and released it the following year when he was convalescing from an injury.

The story involves two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, who receive a buildityourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in one week. A rejected suitor secretly renumbers packing crates. The movie recounts Keatons struggle to assemble the house according to this new arrangement. The end result is depicted in the picture. As if this were not enough, Keaton finds he has built his house on the wrong site and has to move it. The movie reaches its tense climax when the house becomes stuck on railroad tracks. Keaton and Seely try to move it out the way of an oncoming train, which eventually passes on the neighboring track. As the couple look relieved, the house is immediately struck and demolished by another train coming the other way. Keaton stares at the scene, places a For Sale sign with the heap attaching the building instructions and walks off with Seely.The New York Times movie review said, One Week, a Buster Keaton work, has more fun in it than most slapstick, trickproperty comedies. ........

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