The High Sign is a 1921 silent comedy short co-directed by and
starring Buster Keaton, with Edward F. Cline. Although made first,
Keaton shelved it, considering it too close to his earlier Arbuckle-era
style, and it was released later the same year. Keaton plays a drifter
who joins a secret society called the Blinking Buzzards and is hired to
assassinate a wealthy man, only to end up protecting him instead. The
short features Keaton's famous homemade newspaper-reading gag. As a
1921 work, the film is in the public domain.
Comedy · Crime
