Synopsis
Day Dreams (1922) is a silent Buster Keaton comedy you can watch online on iFILM. To win a girl's hand, the young man heads to the city to make something of himself and writes home about each new job. The catch: her imagination inflates his humble odd work into a string of grand, heroic careers.
What he actually does is stumble from trade to trade — sweeping up for a veterinarian, flopping on a theater stage, botching everything with that famous unmoving stone face. Keaton directed the two-reeler with Edward F. Cline, and it's best remembered for one set piece: a chase with what looks like the entire New York police force pounding after him. Twenty-five minutes of gag mechanics rehearsed down to the inch.
A clean way into silent comedy if you've never tried Keaton — short, wordless, and funny without a single subtitle. Stream Day Dreams (1922) online on iFILM.
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