The Blacksmith

The Blacksmith (1922) is a Buster Keaton silent short comedy you can watch online on iFILM. In barely twenty minutes, the smith's assistant is left in charge and sets about shoeing horses and repairing cars.

It all goes sideways from there. Keaton, stone-faced as ever, serves his customers as if he were running a shoe shop, lavishes loving care on a stranger's gleaming motorcar, and turns the forge into a slow rolling disaster. Keaton co-directed the short with Malcolm St. Clair. Pure silent-era physical comedy, one gag tumbling into the next without a word spoken. Stream The Blacksmith (1922) online on iFILM.