The Electric House
"A Million Jolts of Laughter!"
Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.
"A Million Jolts of Laughter!"
Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.
Buster Keaton
Buster
Virginia Fox
The Millionaire's Daughter
Joe Keaton
Buster's Father in Prologue
Louise Keaton
Buster's Sister in Prologue
Myra Keaton
Buster's Mother in Prologue
Steve Murphy
Real Electrical Engineer
Joe Roberts
Millionaire
Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.
The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief banker (Tandy). Meanwhile, one of the junior managers (Dillon) is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts unpaid. Thus the manager decides to steal from the company.
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.
A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.
Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.
Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
An outcast duckling's search for a family to accept him leads to constant rejection before learning his true identity as a swan.
Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.
A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.
Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.