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Best 1 Sherlock Jr.

Sherlock Jr. is a 1924 American Buster Keaton feature about a projectionist entering a film, noted for its dream logic and landmark cinema-within-cinema gags.

2 Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Steamboat Bill, Jr. is a 1928 American Buster Keaton feature, famous for the falling house-front stunt and its Mississippi riverboat setting.

3 One Week
One Week

One Week is a 1920 Buster Keaton short, notable as his first released solo starring film and for its collapsing prefabricated house gag.

4 The Play House

The Play House is a 1921 American Buster Keaton short noted for its elaborate multiple-exposure sequence, with Keaton appearing as every performer in a theater.

5 The Goat
The Goat

The Goat is a 1921 Buster Keaton short comedy, notable for its mistaken-identity chase plot and iconic close-up wanted poster gag.

6 The Scarecrow

The Scarecrow is a 1920 Buster Keaton short, notable for its ingenious shared-room gadgets and a chase ending in a motorcycle wedding.

7 The Boat
The Boat

The Boat is a 1921 American Buster Keaton short about a family launching a disastrous homemade vessel, notable for Keaton's practical maritime gag work.

8 The High Sign

The High Sign is a 1921 Buster Keaton short, notable for its trick-house finale and for being one of Keaton's earliest solo comedies.

9 Convict 13
Convict 13

Convict 13 is a 1920 Buster Keaton short comedy, notable for its prison-gallows sequence and early display of Keaton's deadpan risk-taking.

10 The Electric House

The Electric House is a 1922 American Buster Keaton short in which a mistaken engineer automates a home, notable for its elaborate mechanical gag design.

11 Go West
Go West

Go West is a 1925 American Buster Keaton feature in which Friendless bonds with a cow, notable for mixing western parody with large-scale cattle gags.

12 Hard Luck
Hard Luck

Hard Luck is a 1921 Buster Keaton short comedy, notable for a long-lost ending and Keaton's extreme high-dive gag into an empty pool.

13 The Haunted House

The Haunted House is a 1921 Buster Keaton short, notable for combining a bank robbery plot with a staged haunted-house sequence.

14 Battling Butler

Battling Butler is a 1926 American Buster Keaton feature about a pampered man mistaken for a boxer, notable for Keaton's move into feature farce.

15 The Paleface

The Paleface is a 1922 American Buster Keaton short in which he blunders into a Native American conflict, noted for its frontier parody and stunt comedy.

16 The Balloonatic

The Balloonatic is a 1923 American Buster Keaton short about a hapless balloonist, notable for outdoor stunt comedy involving flight and wilderness survival.

17 The Frozen North

The Frozen North is a 1922 American Buster Keaton short parodying Arctic melodramas, notable for spoofing William S. Hart's western persona.

18 Daydreams
Daydreams

Daydreams is a 1922 American Buster Keaton short about failed city ambitions, notable for episodic gags built around letters sent to his sweetheart.

19 The Blacksmith

The Blacksmith is a 1922 American Buster Keaton short set around a village forge, notable for inventive mechanical gags involving horses, cars, and tools.

20 My Wife's Relations

My Wife's Relations is a 1922 American Buster Keaton short about mistaken marriage ties, notable for its domestic farce and Keaton's deadpan family chaos.

21 The Saphead

The Saphead is a 1920 American feature starring Buster Keaton, notable as his first feature-length starring role after work in Roscoe Arbuckle shorts.

22 Spite Marriage

Spite Marriage is a 1929 American Buster Keaton feature co-directed with Edward Sedgwick, notable as one of Keaton's last silent features at MGM.

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