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According to Buster's father, Joe, it was the famous magician Harry Houdini, a personal friend of the Keatons, after watching the kid fall down a flight of stairs unhurt at the age of six months, who said, "That's some buster your kid took." Now, it may not have been Houdini who said it, but, what the hell. Buster in those days was known to mean a fall. Nothing could have been more appropriate
According to Buster's father, Joe, it was the famous magician Harry Houdini, a personal friend of the Keatons, after watching the kid fall down a flight of stairs unhurt at the age of six months, who said, "That's some buster your kid took." Now, it may not have been Houdini who said it, but, what the hell. Buster in those days was known to mean a fall. Nothing could have been more appropriate
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with Buster the main target throughout
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As soon as the family of the girl he's fallen for learns
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of his identity being the inheritor of the feud
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Buster becomes a walking target
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Of course this was in the days dominated by
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single shot handguns
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Eventually he figures it out
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but also learns that the father told his sons that
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Movie Summary
Documentary on the life and works of comic genius Buster Keaton, directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
