The High Sign
What A Predicament!
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A gleefully absurd silent slapstick comedy where a hapless drifter accidentally becomes a hero through physical ingenuity and comedic mishap.
Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daughter by outfitting their home with trick devices.
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