This is a rather silly Buster Keaton short and he talks!
Buster plays a rather old office boy for a newspaper. A reporter in order to share the ransom with Buster, asks Buster to confess to a crime of murder and get himself jailed.
The reporter who has a good idea of who the actual murderer is will go and find the culprit. While Buster is in jail, he finds out that the reporter died in a plane crash. Now Buster needs to escape from jail before he gets hanged.
The story is nonsense and unfortunately Buster is portrayed as a simpleton. There is still enough slapstick for Buster to show his comedy skills.
Buster plays a rather old office boy for a newspaper. A reporter in order to share the ransom with Buster, asks Buster to confess to a crime of murder and get himself jailed.
The reporter who has a good idea of who the actual murderer is will go and find the culprit. While Buster is in jail, he finds out that the reporter died in a plane crash. Now Buster needs to escape from jail before he gets hanged.
The story is nonsense and unfortunately Buster is portrayed as a simpleton. There is still enough slapstick for Buster to show his comedy skills.