"BUSTER KEATON Supported by his celebrated family of Vaudeville fame — "The Four Keatons" in his second comedy — "Convict 13" You'll say this is as funny as Fatty Arbuckle ever made."
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
Buster Keaton
Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard
Sybil Seely
Socialite, Warden's Daughter
Joe Roberts
The Crazed Prisoner
Edward F. Cline
Hangman
Joe Keaton
Prisoner
Harry Keaton
Little guard that Big Joe knocks out (uncredited)
Louise Keaton
(uncredited)
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.
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.
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.
Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.
Tom ties up Spike and sneaks into the courtyard of the glamorous Toodles Galore with his bass, hoping to woo her with his song, much to the annoyance of a sleeping Jerry.
A mix of guns and mistaken identity leads to chaos in this satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic westerns, finding Buster in the frozen north - "the last stop on the subway".
Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.
By accident, Cedric (Goofy), replaces his master, Sir Loinsteak, in the armor just before the joust with champion Sir Cumference.
A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.