The High Sign

The High Sign

What A Predicament!

1921•21m•7.1/10

CrimeComedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.1/10(124)

Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daughter by outfitting their home with trick devices.

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Production

Joseph M. Schenck Productions

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

Our Hero

Bartine Burkett

Bartine Burkett

Miss Nickelnurser

Charles Dorety

Charles Dorety

Gang Member

Joe Roberts

Joe Roberts

Leader of Buzzards

Al St. John

Al St. John

Man On Beach

Ingram B. Pickett

Tiny Tim

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