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One Week
One Week is the first independent film Buster Keaton released himself, full of new stunts in and around houses and on ladders. In it, a newlywed couple receives a kit house as a gift. But a spurned suitor secretly renumbers the various parts, resulting in a crooked house and spinning walls. Many impressive visual effects were not staged but filmed in real life, such as the house spinning around its axis and colliding with a train, resulting in scenes iconic to this day.
Bio Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton (1895–1966) was an American comic actor and filmmaker. Arguably the greatest comic genius of the silent era, Buster Keaton turned the adage “less is more” into slapstick gold, using his perpetually passive, poker-faced visage to wring laughs from the most absurd situations. His consistently stoic, deadpan expression earned him the nickname The Great Stone Face. With innovative films like Sherlock Jr., The General, and Steamboat Bill, Jr., Keaton took silent comedy to new heights of astonishing ambition. He was recognised by Entertainment Weekly as the seventh-greatest director of all time. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Keaton the 21st-greatest male star of all time.
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- This film was #28 in the “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025