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Here's another short comedy that Buster Keaton made for Columbia Pictures — in 1941, in this case, when he was somewhat past his prime. This is General Nuisance and in it, he lives down to that title. It's a far cry from Buster at his best but nothing he did was without interest, especially when he was teamed with Clyde Bruckman, one of the best writers of Keaton's style of comedy.

Bruckman wrote for (and occasionally directed) the likes of Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, W.C. Field, Harold Lloyd, Abbott and Costello and others. Bruckman was, in fact, responsible for getting Columbia to hire Keaton when no one else would. This is not him at his best either but maybe you'll enjoy some of this silly little film…