One Week

One Week

7.9IMDb Score
Released:1920-08-29
Genre:Comedy
Duration:25 min
Director:Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Actors:Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts
Production:Joseph M. Schenck Productions

Overview:

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

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