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.
- Date of release
- 1961-11-09
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 22m
- Director
- Joe Parker
Casting
- Buster Keaton — The Home Owner
- Bob Hawk — Narrator / Realtor
- John F. Long — Man in Bowling Alley
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