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Edited by Mel Thorsen Initial release 28 June 1940 (USA) | 6/10 Movieo Produced by Jules White Director Jules White | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Written by Clyde BruckmanEdwart Adamson Starring Buster KeatonDorothy ApplebyElsie AmesRichard FiskeBruce Bennett Cast Similar She's Oil Mine, Mooching Through Georgia, Pest from the West, The Chemist, The Timid Young Man |
The Taming of the Snood (1940) is the fifth short subject starring Buster Keaton made for Columbia Pictures.
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Plot
Buster is the owner of "Keaton's Snappy Hats" hat shop. While modeling hats for a customer, jewel thief Dorothy Appleby, a stolen ring is stuffed into his porkpie hat. She convinces him she likes his hat and has it delivered to her apartment. When Buster arrives, the maid Elsie Ames, winds up doing many stunts and pratfalls with Buster. The jewel thief returns to her apartment and retrieves the ring and hides it on the leg of her parrot. The parrot flies out the window and Buster and the maid go after it, eventually hanging from a flagpole and careening back into the apartment with the ring. Detectives have caught up with the thief and the ring is promptly handed over to them.