I consider The Love Nest (1923) to be woefully underrated. Is it as good as Cops (1922), One Week (1920), or The Boat (1921)? No. Is it as bad as The Blacksmith (1922), Daydreams (1922), or The Balloonatic (1923)? No way.
The gallows humor here beats out even Convict 13 (1920) and the infamously cynical ending of College (1927) in terms of sheer darkness. Here we have a ruthless captain who drowns his men for minor offenses and then throws a funeral wreath out onto the sea after them.
The gags are among Keaton's funniest in all his shorts, in my opinion. I love when he goes down underwater with a hunting rifle to shoot fish or how he plans to escape the eponymous whaling ship. Just wonderful.
Not a spectacular finish to Keaton's run of short work from the early 1920s, but it's still a worthy entry in his oeuvre.
The gallows humor here beats out even Convict 13 (1920) and the infamously cynical ending of College (1927) in terms of sheer darkness. Here we have a ruthless captain who drowns his men for minor offenses and then throws a funeral wreath out onto the sea after them.
The gags are among Keaton's funniest in all his shorts, in my opinion. I love when he goes down underwater with a hunting rifle to shoot fish or how he plans to escape the eponymous whaling ship. Just wonderful.
Not a spectacular finish to Keaton's run of short work from the early 1920s, but it's still a worthy entry in his oeuvre.