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Not to be confused with the 1981 BlackComedy feature of the same name, which starred Creator/DanAykroyd and Creator/JohnBelushi. Also not to be confused with [[Neighbors2014 any other film]] [[{{Series/Neighbours}} or television]] [[Series/TheNeighbors series]] [[TheNeighbors of a similar title.]]

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Not to be confused with the 1981 BlackComedy feature of the same name, which starred Creator/DanAykroyd and Creator/JohnBelushi. Also not to be confused with [[Neighbors2014 [[Film/Neighbors2014 any other film]] [[{{Series/Neighbours}} or television]] [[Series/TheNeighbors series]] [[TheNeighbors of a similar title.]]

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In this 1920 two-reeler, Buster Keaton and Creator/VirginiaFox are a lower-class Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet who live in neighboring tenements. All they want is to get married, but their parents, and especially the girl's hulking, intimidating father, get in the way.

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In this 1920 two-reeler, Buster Keaton and Creator/VirginiaFox Virginia Fox are a lower-class Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet who live in neighboring tenements. All they want is to get married, but their parents, and especially the girl's hulking, intimidating father, get in the way.


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* AcmeProducts: The girl's wedding ring comes from the Acme Five-and-Dime store. Her father squishes it in his hand, and is so offended that he calls the wedding off and drags his daughter out.
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%%* CuteKitten* CuteKitten: A cop thinks he's found Buster hiding under a bedsheet. He whips off the sheet, only to find a mama cat and her kittens.
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%%* BedsheetGhost* BedsheetGhost: An extremely racist gag. A black woman is carrying home laundry in a cart, not knowing that Buster is hiding inside. She gets home, only for the black woman and her entire family to flee in terror when Buster rises up from the sheets and becomes a bedsheet ghost.
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%%* AmusingInjuries* AmusingInjuries: Throughout, like when Buster gets slammed into a telephone pole while he's being dragged by a cop, or said cop gets knocked out when, while standing outside a baseball stadium, he's conked on the head by a home run ball.

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In this 1920 two-reeler, Creator/BusterKeaton and Creator/VirginiaFox are a lower-class Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet who live in neighboring tenements. All they want is to get married, but their parents, and especially the girl's hulking, intimidating father, get in the way.

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''Neighbors'' is a 1920 short film directed by Creator/BusterKeaton and Eddie Cline.

In this 1920 two-reeler, Creator/BusterKeaton Buster Keaton and Creator/VirginiaFox are a lower-class Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet who live in neighboring tenements. All they want is to get married, but their parents, and especially the girl's hulking, intimidating father, get in the way.



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%%* WallCrawl* WallCrawl: Buster makes it up to the third floor of his girl's building by hoisting himself up from one window to the next.
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Not to be confused with the 1981 BlackComedy feature of the same name, which starred Creator/DanAykroyd and Creator/JohnBelushi. Also not to be confused with [[{{Film/Neighbors}} any other film]] [[{{Series/Neighbours}} or television]] [[Series/TheNeighbors series]] [[TheNeighbors of a similar title.]]

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Not to be confused with the 1981 BlackComedy feature of the same name, which starred Creator/DanAykroyd and Creator/JohnBelushi. Also not to be confused with [[{{Film/Neighbors}} [[Neighbors2014 any other film]] [[{{Series/Neighbours}} or television]] [[Series/TheNeighbors series]] [[TheNeighbors of a similar title.]]
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Not to be confused with the 1981 BlackComedy feature of the same name, which starred Creator/DanAykroyd and Creator/JohnBelushi.

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Not to be confused with the 1981 BlackComedy feature of the same name, which starred Creator/DanAykroyd and Creator/JohnBelushi. Also not to be confused with [[{{Film/Neighbors}} any other film]] [[{{Series/Neighbours}} or television]] [[Series/TheNeighbors series]] [[TheNeighbors of a similar title.]]

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* BananaPeelBananaPeel: Used by Buster to effect an escape by tripping his prospective father-in-law.



* {{Blackface}}: Invoked by mud in the face.

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* {{Blackface}}: Invoked by mud in the face.face, with some social satire involved, as the local cop is quick to arrest Buster when Buster looks like a black man due to being covered in mud, but lets Buster go when Buster washes his face off.



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* DraggedByTheCollarDraggedByTheCollar: See the page illustration. The girl's giant of a father yanks Buster around.



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* FeudingFamiliesFeudingFamilies: Why the families are feuding is not explained.



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* HumanLadderHumanLadder: Buster and two of his buddies do this so Buster can get access to the girl on the third floor of the opposite tenement. Specifically, there's a sight gag in which one guy comes out of the first floor, another comes out of the second floor, Buster comes out of the third floor, and they stride across the courtyard together.



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* LiteralAssKicking
LiteralAssKicking: It's a silent slapstick film. How could there not be?
* MistakenMessage
MistakenMessage: The fathers intercept messages passed through the wall between Buster and the girl--causing their wives to think that the fathers have girlfriends.
* ParentalMarriageVetoParentalMarriageVeto: Their parents certainly believe they have the right to exercise it.



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* SeparatedByTheWall
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SeparatedByTheWall: There's a wall dividing the courtyard between the tenements, through which Buster and his girl pass notes. Subverted when Buster reveals there's a door in the wall.



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WatchOutForThatTree: The HumanLadder is eventually caught by the girl's father. As Buster, his buddies, and the girl flee with the father in pursuit, the Human Ladder keeps careening into things, knocking out a rung at a time.
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In this 1920 two-reeler, Creator/BusterKeaton and Creator/VirginiaFox are a lower-class Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet who live in neighboring tenements.

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In this 1920 two-reeler, Creator/BusterKeaton and Creator/VirginiaFox are a lower-class Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet who live in neighboring tenements.
tenements. All they want is to get married, but their parents, and especially the girl's hulking, intimidating father, get in the way.

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In this 1920 two-reeler, Creator/BusterKeaton and Creator/VirginiaFox are a lower-class Theatre/{{Romeo and Juliet}} who live in neighboring tenements.

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In this 1920 two-reeler, Creator/BusterKeaton and Creator/VirginiaFox are a lower-class Theatre/{{Romeo and Juliet}} Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet who live in neighboring tenements.



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* EverythingsCuterWithKittens
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* {{Blackface}}: Invoked by mud in the face.


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* IrisOut: The movie ends with one.
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This film can be seen in its entirety at [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4322925262873614394# Google Video]].
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Not to be confused with the 1981 BlackComedy feature of the same name, which starred DanAykroyd and JohnBelushi.

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Not to be confused with the 1981 BlackComedy feature of the same name, which starred DanAykroyd Creator/DanAykroyd and JohnBelushi.Creator/JohnBelushi.
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->''The Flower of Love could find no more romantic spot in which to blossom than in this poet's Dream Garden.''
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In this 1920 two-reeler, Creator/BusterKeaton and Creator/VirginiaFox are a lower-class Theatre/{{Romeo and Juliet}} who live in neighboring tenements.

This film can be seen in its entirety at [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4322925262873614394# Google Video]].

Not to be confused with the 1981 BlackComedy feature of the same name, which starred DanAykroyd and JohnBelushi.
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!! "Neighbors" provides examples of:
* AmusingInjuries
* ArtisticLicensePhysics
* BananaPeel
* BanisterSlide
* BedsheetGhost
* BringIt
* ChaseScene
* DraggedByTheCollar
* DynamicEntry
* DysfunctionalFamily: "Her father's abused her long enough; Now I want to marry her and take her home to ''my'' father."
* EverythingsCuterWithKittens
* FeudingFamilies
* GirlNextDoor: Or at least in the building across the alley.
* HeavySleeper
* HumanLadder
* ImprovisedWeapon: Specifically, a {{broomstick quarterstaff}}.
* ImprovisedZipline: The wash line that stretches between the two buildings.
* LeetLingo: An OlderThanTelevision example -- Buster replies to a note that says "I love you" by scrawling "2" at the end and returning it.
* LiteralAssKicking
* MistakenMessage
* ParentalMarriageVeto
* SarcasmMode: The opening intertitle (see above) is followed by an iris open to a bare dirt lot bisected by a wooden fence.
* SeparatedByTheWall
* {{Slapstick}}
* UnwillingSuspension: Buster is briefly pinned to a clothesline by his shoes.
* WallCrawl
* WatchOutForThatTree

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