The 'High Sign'

Not terribly funny until the last few minutes involving all the trap doors.

Keaton was at his best with physical comedy, and those last 5 minutes are some excellent stuff. The rest of it is pretty funny too.

Only a couple memorable moments in this early short: 1) the cutaway scene revealing all four rooms as Buster races through them, and 2) the 'High Sign' itself.

A strong directorial debut from Keaton (I don’t agree with him that One Week is better): very nice and focused, with a good balance between realist and surrealist gags, more colourful villains than usual, and a finale as magnificent as in Sherlock Jr. (save for the meta cleverness). Opens with a train arrival surprise similar to that of Once Upon a Time in the West, one of the first film sequences I watched analytically.

Pretty good throughout. Strong story with a slow build of gags leading up to the final few minutes of absolute chaos.

What a great "dollhouse" view of the house with the secret panels! Interesting to see fellow Arbuckle star St. John make a quick appearance. I feel like walking down the street and making the secret "high sign" to see if anyone else returns it. (Likely, I'd just be beaten up.)

Short film by baby Buster. I put this one on late night after coming home, so memory is fuzzy. It had some funny, classic Buster moments but overall not his best.

10.15 Erkan

The High Sign estreava há 100 anos nos EUA. Esse curta é menos engajado que o usual Keaton, mas um Keaton menor ainda é um grande Keaton. Box Obras-primas do Cinema Buster Keaton.

The plot is scattershot and the jokes don't all hit, but at the end Keaton finally shows off some of his skills. A decent directorial debut by him.

while this was buster's first independent effort, it remained more tethered to arbuckle slapstick than he would prefer, and lacked something of a human touch. the narrative is wispy and only loosely tied to the gags, while keaton's still calibrating the ideal ratio of self-deprecation. still, i'm glad it was only shelved rather than destroyed as he wished, else i'd never have been introduced to the ludicrous ‘blinking buzzards' or that surreal shot of an ever-expanding broadsheet.

Loved this one, made me laugh a lot.

One of Keaton's most creative shorts thanks to the house with the secret passages.

This was a lot of fun and had me laughing multiple times.

A fun little one that flies right by, with a great ending.

Good not great

The best part is at the end, but overall it's not such a bad movie. Much better than some of the stuff he's done.

The slapstick finale is, as indicated by other users here, pretty impressive. Still, it's too little, too late. Most of the comic material beforehand is old *and* stupid, a lethal combination

this bad boy was full of everything that makes buster funny and entertaining, and all in a small package--cutting out the shortfalls of his early feature length films. i've said it before, and i'll say it again, i fall in love with buster more every time i see another of his films.