One Week (film)

Infobox_Film
name = One Week


caption = "One Week" title card
director = Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton
producer = Joseph M. Schenck
writer = Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton
starring = Buster Keaton
Sybil Seely
Joe Roberts
music =
cinematography = Elgin Lessley
editing = Buster Keaton
distributor = Metro Pictures
released = September 1, 1920
runtime = 19 minutes
language = Silent film
English intertitles
country = USA
budget =
amg_id = 1:138771
imdb_id = 0011541
preceded_by =
followed_by = |

"One Week" is a 1920 short comedy film starring comedian Buster Keaton. It is important because it was the first movie made on his own to be released. Keaton had worked with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle for a number of years. It was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline. The runtime is 19 minutes. Sybil Seely co-stars. "The High Sign" had been filmed prior to "One Week," but Keaton considered it an inferior effort to debut with, and released it the following year.

Guitarist Bill Frisell released a sountrack to the movie in 1995 on his album "The High Sign/One Week".

Plot

The story involves two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, who receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in "one week." A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates. The movie recounts Keaton's struggle to assemble the house according to this new "arrangement". The end result is depicted in the picture. As if this weren't enough, Keaton finds he has built his house on the wrong site and has to move it. The movie reaches its climax when the house becomes stuck on railroad tracks on which a train is coming. The house won't budge and the train hits it producing a shower of lumber. Keaton stares at the scene, places a 'For Sale' sign with the heap and walks off with Seely.

The New York Times movie review said, "One Week", a Buster Keaton work, has more fun in it than most slap-stick, trick-property comedies."Citation | title = The Screen | newspaper = New York Times | pages = 22 | date = October 25, 1920]

Cast

* Buster Keaton - The Groom
* Sybil Seely - The Bride
* Joe Roberts - Piano Mover

Trivia

* Many special effects, such as the house spinning around during a storm and the train collision, were filmed as they occurred and were not model work.
* The mischievous rival is an unknown actor. Joe Roberts has a brief bit as a strong-man piano mover.
* Sybil Seely was 18 years old when she made this movie. She starred in 18 movies, the last one in 1922. She died in 1984.

ee also

* Buster Keaton filmography

References

External links

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* [http://www.archive.org/details/OneWeek Free download] on the Internet Archive