The Love Nest
About The Love Nest
After a girl rejects him, Buster puts to sea in a small boat named Cupid and meets the whaler The Love Nest. The captain throws men overboard for small faults. When the steward spills hot tea on the captain's hand, the captain throws him over and makes Buster the steward. Buster chops a hole in the hull, escapes in a lifeboat, and ties up at what he thinks is a dock. It is a navy target. A shell hits, and he is thrown into the air.
Cast & crew
More about The Love Nest
Buster Keaton wrote it and directed it with Edward F. Cline. Joseph M. Schenck produced it. Elgin Lessley photographed and edited it. First National released it in March 1923. Wikipedia gives 20 minutes. Joe Roberts plays the captain. Virginia Fox plays the girl. A circulating copy runs about 23 minutes.
Themes
Making
Keaton stages the escape as a hole chopped in the hull, then a lifeboat that is not a dock.
Look
Elgin Lessley shot the whaler deck and the gunnery target.
Notes
- The captain's rule is overboard for a small mistake. The tea is what costs the steward.
- Buster's own boat is named Cupid. The whaler is The Love Nest.
- The last gag is a bullseye: the lifeboat is moored on a gunnery target.
- Fred Gabourie is credited with Cline and Keaton on some direction lists.
Scenes
- The captain throws the steward overboard for spilled tea.
- A navy shell hits the lifeboat Buster thought was a dock.
