The Haunted House

Name: The Haunted House
Director: Buster Keaton
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Released: 1921
Duration: 21 min
Cast: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline, Natalie Talmadge

1921 Comedy Horror 21 minutes Directed by Buster Keaton

About The Haunted House

A bank teller is caught up in a hold-up and with counterfeiters. He then runs into a theatrical company pretending to be ghosts in a haunted house.

Cast & crew

More about The Haunted House

Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline wrote and directed the two-reeler. The catalog lists Keaton alone. Wikipedia gives 21 minutes, Wikidata lists 23 minutes plus the dates January 30 and February 21, 1921, Joseph M. Schenck produced, and Metro Pictures distributed it.

Themes

a bank hold-up
counterfeiters
actors dressed as ghosts
bank teller
haunted house
Buster Keaton

Look

Elgin Lessley photographed the short and is also the editor on Wikidata.

Notes

Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, and Joe Keaton are on the Wikidata cast, along with Cline and Natalie Talmadge.
Dorothy Cassil is on the catalog cast.
Elgin Lessley is both cinematographer and editor on Wikidata.