The Electric House

1922

Comedy

7
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 85% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 3475 3.5K

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Plot summary

Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.

Director

Buster Keaton Photo
Buster Keaton

Top cast

Buster Keaton Photo
Buster Keaton as Buster
Joe Keaton Photo
Joe Keaton as Buster's Father in Prologue
Virginia Fox Photo
Virginia Fox as The Millionaire's Daughter
Steve Murphy Photo
Steve Murphy as Real Electrical Engineer
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
209.55 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
TV-G
Subtitles
24 fps
12 hr 22 min
Seeds 4
388.94 MB
1440*1080
English 2.0
TV-G
Subtitles
24 fps
12 hr 22 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by David F 7 / 10

A good, short, comedy about a young college

A good, short, comedy about a young college graduate mistaken for an engineer who electrifies somebody's house with comic results.
Reviewed by sean l 6 / 10

Fresh college grad Buster Keaton grabs the wrong

Fresh college grad Buster Keaton grabs the wrong diploma and is hastily offered a job before he realizes the mistake. He's a trained botanist, but there's quick money in this fancy electrician's gig and the pushy recruiter is awfully anxious to get started. So, after taking an evening to read a fat beginners' manual, he promptly outfits a client's estate with all manner of silly gadgets and inessentials. This pleases everyone, from the dazzled, superficial homeowner to the cocksure Keaton, who takes delight in nonchalantly demonstrating all the bells and whistles. The rightful recipient of Buster's stolen degree is less enthused, though, and soon sneaks into the basement to perform some spiteful sabotage. The outcome is just what one might expect: malfunctioning Rube Goldberg machines on the rampage, with a desperate crowd of confused onlookers racing to be the next one flung through a second-floor window or knocked, repeatedly, off their feet. The story doesn't have a modicum of depth or any resolution, really, but as an exercise in simple, prop-driven physical comedy, it's a good time. Pretty light fare, but still worthwhile.
Reviewed by Christopher B 10 / 10

The Electric House" is one of the masterpiece

"The Electric House" is one of the masterpiece shorts that Buster Keaton Directed and stared in during his early career from 1920-1923. The short is 23 minutes long and crams all kinds of props into the house and a barrage of editing techniques are used in order to make the film and all it's gadgets work and look real. The project is quite an undertaking especially for a two-reel film and is a testament to the genius, and incredible engineering skills, of Buster Keaton! The basic plot is during graduation several of the graduates drop their diplomas and pick up the wrong ones during a crucial moment, a millionaire is employing someone with a degree in electrical engineering. The fellow who has the degree (or at least did until it was mixed up and ends up in the hands of Buster) is denied because he is unknowingly carrying a Beauty degree. Buster accidentally winds up next to the millionaire and he is chosen to create an electric house for the client. Shockingly he does an amazing job and the house is stunning and really proves Keaton's genius in real life but is eventually sabotaged by the other graduate seeking revenge when he finds out about the mix-up and Buster taking the job anyway. The variety of editing and reversing of the film coupled with close-ups and different angle shots makes the house come alive and all the gadgets all the more incredible. "The Electric House" truly shows off Keaton's genius both in front of the camera and behind it and is essential watching to any Keaton fans or comedy lovers!
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