Hard Luck
2000 FEET OF ROARING LAUGHTER
Directed by Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Produced by Joseph M. Schenck Productions
A silent-era slapstick comedy that mines dark subject matter—suicide attempts—for physical humor and ironic reversals, balancing morbid premise with energetic, playful execution.
A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.
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