Buster Keaton's city slicker is conducted on an elastic, cartoony railroad line into D.W. Griffith's native territory and into a Hatfield-McCoy feud. The 19th-century rural setting seems to bring out Keaton's keenest eye; the comedy stunts performed by the director-star look so risky as to elicit more worry than laughter.
Of all the silent comics, Harold Lloyd may have had the solidest sense of character, as evidenced by the setting-up of his eager-beaver Horatio Alger character in this movie's lovely first half. The second half contains the famous shot of Lloyd dangling from the hands of a clock. Which is …
Marie St. Clair (Edna Purviance) is a desperate young woman who suspects she has been dumped by her flighty fiancé, Jean (Carl Miller), after he mysteriously stands her up at a railway station, where they were to meet in order to travel to Paris together. She goes off to Paris …