The Home Owner (1961)
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.
Director: Joe Parker
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Buster Keaton as The Home Owner |
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Bob Hawk as Narrator / Realtor |
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John F. Long as Man in Bowling Alley |
| Directing | Joe Parker | Director |
| Camera | Leo Tover | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Basil Wrangell | Editor |
| Directing | Jack Voglin | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Joe Parker | Writer |