The High Sign
“What A Predicament!”
Buster KeatonWhere to watch in the United States: Stream: IndieFlix, IndieFlix Shorts Amazon Channel · Free: Kanopy, Public Domain Movies, Tubi TV. Streaming data from JustWatch via TMDB; availability changes.
Cast
Buster Keaton Bartine Burkett Charles Dorety Ingram B. Pickett 
Joe Roberts Al St. John
Credits
Written by: 
Edward F. Cline Buster Keaton
Produced by: Joseph M. Schenck
Plot
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.
Sinekatalog’s take
A silent slapstick short that drops a stone-faced hero into a shooting gallery run by a gang. The trapdoors, hidden passages and stunts show a great comic mind at work. Essential and quick for lovers of silent comedy.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.6 / 10 (4,040 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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