The Goat

1921

Action / Comedy

7
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 90% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.7/10 10 5629 5.6K

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Plot summary

A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.

Director

Buster Keaton Photo
Buster Keaton

Top cast

Buster Keaton Photo
Buster Keaton as The Goat
Edward F. Cline Photo
Edward F. Cline as Cop by Telephone Pole
Joe Keaton Photo
Joe Keaton as Minor Role
Virginia Fox Photo
Virginia Fox as The Police Chief's Daughter
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216.29 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
24 fps
12 hr 23 min
Seeds 4
401.53 MB
1440*1080
English 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
24 fps
12 hr 23 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by sean l 5 / 10

A youthfully naive Buster Keaton stumbles straight into

A youthfully naive Buster Keaton stumbles straight into trouble once again; mistaken for an escaped murderer and instantly feared by the general public, he's pursued by several well-intentioned (but functionally inept) pavement pounding police officers. This proves to be as good an excuse as any to embark upon his usual manner of clever, resourceful physical tomfoolery; persistently dodging consequence through sheer chance and/or ingenuity. His act has often been guilty of bordering on cartoon absurdity - manipulating an elevator's floor indicator to send the whole thing through the roof, for example - but such moments of carefree indulgence are normally balanced by more a grounded human counter-balance. Less so in this case. Despite a number of frantic chase scenes, chaotic and entertaining though they may be, The Goat relies too much on the silly slapstick stuff and doesn't do enough to distinguish itself from Keaton's better-recognized films. It's light and silly, smoothly paced, but I didn't find much to really dig my teeth into.
Reviewed by Nick M 7 / 10

The Goat is a competent Keaton picture that

The Goat is a competent Keaton picture that is representative of his style at this point in his career, but it lacks some of the originality of his better pictures. Most of the gags are recycled, though there were a couple of amusing bits involving mannequins, but to its credit nearly everything was integrated into the plot rather than simply existing per se. Actually, two of the most iconic Keaton images come from this picture: his mugshot, and the one with him sitting on the cowcatcher of a train. The reason that last one is so enduring seems to be because the film presents him rushing toward us at great speed and then stopping just before he hits the camera, which would have been quite novel in 1921 as I can't recall seeing much of anything like this previously. This appears to have been achieved by slowing down the capture framerate, and then speeding up the playback to create the illusion of a startling degree of speed. The same technique seems to have been employed while filming him atop the clay horse, which sags under his weight just so.
Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

It's amazing how much entertainment Keaton gets out

It's amazing how much entertainment Keaton gets out of a chase scene, which is basically what the movie is. Endlessly inventive.
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