When the high winds kick off, then we're in the dizzying heights of outrageous comedy. As Keaton starts travelling around by bed, things falling down around him, I had that shock of realisation that maybe Eternal Sunshine came from here...
Awesome stuff, that you know had to be done for real e.g. Keaton being picked up in the wind, attached to a tree... Dangerous filming, amazing, ends on a great joke, Keaton entirely deadpan throughout, of course.
Photographed by Bert Haines and Devereaux Jennings entirely in deep focus and written by Carl Harbaugh.
A United Artists picture.
According to Peter Bogdanovich, in 'Movie of the Week', Keaton "cowrote, coproduced, codirected, and starred in it, but (unlike Charlie Chaplin, and as a kind of rebuke to him), took credit only as actor."
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