I'm totally going to do the Buzzard Secret Sign to everyone I meet from now on, just a perfect running gag.

The technical and acrobatic virtuosity on display is, as always, just outstanding.

Not sure that it gets much better than this Buster Keaton short about a lovably hapless hero (guess who) who ends up entangled in a highly dangerous gang of criminals.

Most of the Keaton signatures are here, including some great physical gags especially in the climax which features Buster giving chase to a bunch of hoodlums in a giant house set with loads of trap doors and secret passageways. There's also some casual surrealism as when Buster paints himself a hook to hang his hat on, or a smoking pipe.

Hilarious and inventive, this is the second Keaton film I've watched and I enjoyed it almost as much as the first (One Week). You can't take your eyes off Keaton for one second, his mastery of physical trickery is mesmerising and flows so well that I had to go back and replay a few sections to see just how he'd done it.

The creativity and camera trickery holds up exceptionally well even after almost 100 years, looking forward to the rest of the Short Films boxset

Probably my favorite Keaton short, along with One Week.

One of Keaton most powerful stunt!

This certainly has to be one of Keaton's most purely entertaining and enjoyable shorts. It is wildly clever in both execution and concept, and truly funny. I loved everything about this short, but I was particularly impressed with the cutaway-house set, including its many trap doors and secret hideouts, which is put to brilliant use. This is a raucous 20 minutes that does not disappoint.

Interesting Buster Keaton short starts off normally but concludes with a fantastic set piece involving trapdoors and exitways in a huge mansion that I had to watch twice to comprehend. A little off in parts but genius in the end.

Not his best.

Raucously funny slapstick, as Buster pretends to be a good shot with a gun to secure employment, then runs afoul of a secret society.

Buster manages to get a job as a bodyguard (no less) after a convincing performance at a shoot-out gallery. Unfortunately he also ends up together with a bunch of culprits who wants him to kill the same man he's supposed to look after. A promising plot, alas, the film is only good but not much more.

PS After twelve films with Arbuckle and Keaton together, this is the first that stars only Keaton.