The greatest movie ever made..!

Charming and brutal

A Brilliant Conflict

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Cast: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely (newlyweds), Joe Roberts (piano man). Screenplay and direction: BUSTER KEATON, EDDIE CLINE. Photography: Elgin Lessley. Technical director: Fred Gabourie.A Joseph M. Schenck Production. Copyright 2 September 1920 by Metro Pictures Corp. 2 reels. 19 minutes. COMMENT: One of Buster Keaton's best shorts, this delightful 2-reeler riot of continuously inventive mishap and fun is included on Kino's Saphead DVD. Expensively produced, it features one of the craziest houses ever erected (albeit temporarily) on a Los Angeles lot. Keaton's daring and dexterity is nothing short of amazing. A great partner, the super-attractive Miss Seely is also worth seeing.(DVD rating: 10/10).

A newly wedded couple attempt to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.There is that constant debate between who was better: Chaplin or Keaton? Everyone more or less agrees that Harold Lloyd was third. And I think generally Chaplin wins, as he is the bigger name. But Keaton really had the physical comedy down, as shown here with some of his great stunts. Falling, stuck between two cars... he put his body on the line in ways Chaplin never would.Although Keaton sort of petered out in the sound era, we have to look at shorts like this and see he was just brilliant with the gags. They hold up perfectly today (2015), and probably always will.

Building a marriage and a life is a lot like building a home. No one knows quite what to do and directions are unreliable. You can end up with a Norman Rockwell house, picket fence and all, or you can get the cubist deal, the Dionysian existence -- which do you think is more fun?This is Keaton at his absolute best. It's remarkable to think that it's the first release on which he had artistic control. He must have been supersaturated with creative energy and ideas at that point. The special effects and physical humor are staggering -- honestly, some of this stuff will drop your jaw.I wonder what the German Expressionists thought about it.

An early Buster Keaton short which still has an enormous amount of charm all these years later, and which has plenty of laughs throughout its running time.First there's a wedding, and the newlyweds almost don't make it to their wedding night; and then there is the portable house they have to start from scratch! Of course this means the house looks wrong, it falls down, lots of stunts and scenes are set up to make the audience gasp and chuckle, and so on.'One Week' is a really fun film and one which is timeless. Keaton would make many more shorts and his great feature-length movies were yet to come, but this is charming snapshot of what was to come.