The Electric House
"A Million Jolts of Laughter!"
Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.
"A Million Jolts of Laughter!"
Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.
Buster Keaton
Buster
Virginia Fox
The Millionaire's Daughter
Joe Keaton
Buster's Father in Prologue
Louise Keaton
Buster's Sister in Prologue
Myra Keaton
Buster's Mother in Prologue
Steve Murphy
Real Electrical Engineer
Joe Roberts
Millionaire
Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.
Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants. They spend the rest of the film trying to exchange pants in various unlikely settings.
Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.
Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.
The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief banker (Tandy). Meanwhile, one of the junior managers (Dillon) is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts unpaid. Thus the manager decides to steal from the company.
A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.