Movie: The Home Owner

Top 3 Billed Cast

Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton

The Home Owner

Bob Hawk
Bob Hawk

Narrator / Realtor

John F. Long
John F. Long

Man in Bowling Alley

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    A 25 minute sales film featuring Buster Keaton as a prospective home owner in Maryvale, a suburb of Phoenix. A Realtor takes Buster on a tour of some model tract homes and extols their virtues while Buster is constantly pursuing a sexy-looking blonde. After buying a home, Buster proceeds to wreak havoc in the community. He falls into another resident's pool with a shopping cart full of purchases from S. S. Kresge's, knocks over an unassuming waiter with a bowling ball at the local lanes and tries his hand at being a waiter a ritzy restaurant. The construction of the new hospital and golf course are then discussed, and the films ends with a panoramic view of the model tract homes.

  • Release Date

    1961-11-09

  • Average

    7

  • Rating:

    3.5 starts
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  • Languages:

    English
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