Direction: Edward F. Cline

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Edward F. Cline. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


One Week (S)

1920 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Sybil Seely · Joe Roberts

Plot Buster gets married, and as a wedding present his uncle gives him and his new bride some land and a house to go with it, but only when they get...

7.7

2K votes

7.7

2K votes

Neighbors (S)

1920 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Roberts · Joe Keaton

Plot The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Scarecrow (S)

1920 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Sybil Seely · Joe Roberts · Edward F. Cline

Plot Farmhands Keaton and Roberts share a cottage full of mechanical devices for making life easy. They are rivals for the farmer's daughter. Keaton, disguised as a scarecrow, causes troubles for...

7.3

893 votes

7.3

893 votes

The High Sign (S)

1921 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Bartine Burkett · Charles Dorety · Al St. John

Plot Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman,...

7.3

632 votes

7.3

632 votes

Three Ages

1923 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Wallace Beery · Margaret Leahy · Joe Roberts

Plot Keaton spoofs D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance" in his debut feature as creator/star. He demonstrates both comic and dramatic skills as he parodies the evils of intolerance in prehistoric times, ancient Rome...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

The Electric House (S)

1922 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Keaton · Myra Keaton

Plot Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home. He installs lots of fanciful gadgets. The one who should have received the degree...

7.2

999 votes

7.2

999 votes

Cops (S)

1922 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Joe Roberts · Virginia Fox · Edward F. Cline

Plot Through a series of mistaken identities Buster winds up with a load of furniture in the middle of parade of policemen. An anarchist's bomb lands in his carriage. After lighting...

7.2

855 votes

7.2

855 votes

The Playhouse (S)

1921 · Movie · 22 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Roberts · Edward F. Cline

Plot The opening scene, a dream sequence prior to the vaudeville routines which follow, is what makes this film famous. In it Keaton plays everyone in a theatre simultaneously (through multiple...

7.1

594 votes

7.1

594 votes

The Paleface (S)

1922 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Roberts

Plot Evil oil barons have given the Indians one day to vacate their land. The Indian chief tells his braves to kill the first white man they see. Buster shows up...

6.9

455 votes

6.9

455 votes

The Boat

1921 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline · Sybil Seely

Plot Buster's handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of...

6.8

502 votes

6.8

502 votes

The Haunted House (S)

1921 · Movie · 21 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Roberts · Edward F. Cline

Plot Buster is a bank clerk. Overturned glue gets everything, mostly the money, stuck to everything else. When robbers show up he can't "stick 'em up" because his hands are stuck...

6.8

446 votes

6.8

446 votes

Convict 13 (S)

1920 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Sybil Seely · Joe Roberts · Edward F. Cline

Plot Buster is playing golf with Sybil when he gets knocked out. An escaped prisoner changes clothes with him. Buster goes to prison and learns that he is to be hanged....

6.8

485 votes

6.8

485 votes

Daydreams (S)

1922 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Renée Adorée · Edward F. Cline · Joe Keaton

Plot Buster goes away to the city to prove to his girl's father he can succeed. He writes her of his various jobs which she glorifies in her imagination. She sees...

6.7

289 votes

6.7

289 votes

Hard Luck (S)

1921 · Movie · 22 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Roberts · Bull Montana

Plot Out of work, Buster tries various ways to commit suicide. At last he tries "poison" from a bottle containing booze. The president of a sporting club speaks of the need...

6.7

330 votes

6.7

330 votes

The Love Nest (S)

1923 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Joe Roberts · Virginia Fox

Plot Buster bids goodbye to Virginia and all women, sailing away in his "Cupid." Later, without food or water, he is taken on board "The Love Nest" which has a very...

6.7

458 votes

6.7

458 votes

My Wife's Relations

1922 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Monte Collins · Wheezer Dell · Harry Madison

Plot When a large Irish woman falsely accuses Buster of breaking a window he is hauled before a Polish judge who speaks no English and assumes they are there to be...

6.7

334 votes

6.7

334 votes

The Balloonatic (S)

1923 · Movie · 22 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Phyllis Haver · Babe London

Plot Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon which lands Buster in the wilderness proves useful later on...

6.6

419 votes

6.6

419 votes

The Frozen North (S)

1922 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Joe Roberts · Sybil Seely · Bonnie Hill

Plot This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing...

6.5

375 votes

6.5

375 votes

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

1941 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast W.C. Fields · Gloria Jean · Leon Errol · Billy Lenhart

Plot Fields wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beat up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress....

6.2

57 votes

6.2

57 votes

The Bank Dick

1940 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

5.9

236 votes

5.9

236 votes