"The Love Nest" is a 22-minute Buster Keaton short film, still in black-and-white and obviously silent. "Buster overboard" is the motto here as almost the entire film takes place on a ship, boat or just at the sea. Buster has to deal with a ruthless captain and as if that isn't already enough, when he finally gets off the ship he is at the wrong time in the wrong place and has Navy ships fire at him. Poor guy. This was one of the last short films with Keaton during his peak possibly. He was in his late 20s here and moved on to full feature films afterward. Many familiar names in this one: Cline, Roberts, Fox and Schenck worked with Keaton on many other movies too, behind the camera or in front of it. All in all, I was not too impressed by this one and did not find it too funny. Not among Stoneface's best.
Review of The Love Nest
