
Buster bids goodbye to Virginia and all women, sailing away in his "Cupid." Later, without food or water, he is taken on board "The Love Nest" which has a very mean captain. A crewman who spills coffee on the captain's hand is thrown overboard. So is anyone else who bothers the captain.... (Full plot summary below)
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Buster bids goodbye to Virginia and all women, sailing away in his "Cupid." Later, without food or water, he is taken on board "The Love Nest" which has a very mean captain. A crewman who spills coffee on the captain's hand is thrown overboard. So is anyone else who bothers the captain.
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| User ReviewChris BBuster's final two-reeler, a precursor of sort to "The Navigator", or a continuation of "The Boat", with our man mining the high seas for more and more laughs. |
| User ReviewAj Vkeaton plays with dark comedy, despair and dreams in this nautical outing. not as satisfying as his over boat pictures, but still pretty awe-inspiring in terms of the way keaton stages and shoots his sequences (the bit with the naval weapons practice comes to mind, especially). this short displays keaton as the burgeoning filmmaker we'll see later in 'sherlock jr.' and 'the navigator' quite well. |
| User ReviewRiley HThis is the goofiest of Keaton's boat films. It's pleasantly nonsensical but the ending doesn't really work for me on repeat viewing. |
| User ReviewJosh GI can understand how one might not be impressed by The Love Nest. The gags don't emerge from the action as they do in other Keaton films. Often, the scene seems to be set up specifically in order that a joke can play out. Mostly, I enjoyed it. When you hear the title, you'll likely assume that this short is about a newlywed couple moving into their first apartment. In actuality, Keaton plays a man who has lost interest in women and everything else following his bride-to-be leaving him. He writes her a letter and seals the envelope with his tears. Soon he sets out on a boat to find adventure and forget the girl (who never shows up in the short) and runs across a whaling ship named... "The Love Nest". Yes, the short is mostly about Keaton's misadventures on this ship. There are weak spots. The "all hands on deck" scene is just a little too lame, and we all know what's going to happen when Keaton shoots a fish that has flopped into the boat. But overall, it's enjoyable and fun. There's not really any slow spots; it moves quickly from one joke to the next, so that even if one doesn't quite hit, you're already looking for the next. The Love Nest is maybe not Keaton's best short, but it's still good. |
| User ReviewGreg Wanother silent comedic masterpiece from Keaton |
| User ReviewMark SThe Love Nest in question is a whaling ship, on which a heartbroken Buster Keaton gets up to plenty of hijinks. It's not a classic silent film by any means, but there are enough funny and inventive visual jokes to make this short worth a look. |
| User ReviewTom HNot up to Keaton`s standards, but decent. |
| User ReviewFabien DA fun short film from Buster Keaton. It's not as uproarious as a lot of his other works, but it does have some great gags in it. It's short, sweet, and breezes by. It won't rock your world the way many of his films will, but it's good if you're in need of a Buster fix. |