The Goat

Name: The Goat
Director: Buster Keaton
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1921
Duration: 23 min
Cast: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Malcolm St. Clair, Edward F. Cline

1921 Comedy 23 minutes Directed by Buster Keaton

About The Goat

Buster Keaton is taken for a murderer on the run. A posse follows him. The policeman leading the chase has a daughter, and she is the woman Keaton falls for. One shot puts him on the cowcatcher of a train that stops inches from the lens.

Cast & crew

More about The Goat

Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair wrote and co-directed the two-reeler. Joseph M. Schenck produced it. Elgin Lessley photographed it. Metro Pictures released it. Wikidata dates a release of 15 May 1921 and times it at 23 minutes. Virginia Fox plays the daughter. Joe Roberts is billed. A copy is on the Internet Archive and on Wikimedia Commons.

Themes

Mistaken for a killer
The policeman's daughter
A train that stops in close-up
Buster Keaton
posse
cowcatcher
Virginia Fox
Joe Roberts

Look

Elgin Lessley shot the chase and the train that fills the frame and stops.

Preservation

Copies are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton are on the cast list. Edward F. Cline and Jean Havez are credited as well.
The train gag is a stop on the cowcatcher, not a crash.
The Internet Archive identifier is TheGoat.