''Day Dreams'' (also billed as Daydreams) is a 1922 American

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directed by and featuring Buster Keaton. It is most famous for a scene where Keaton finds himself on the inside of a riverboat

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. It is a partially lost film and available from public domain sources.

Plot

Buster wants to marry a girl, but her father disapproves. Therefore Keaton vows he will go the city and get a job, or commit suicide. He takes several jobs (

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, employee in an

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, extra in a theatrical play,...) which all disastrously go wrong. In the final scenes he gets stuck inside a riverboat paddle wheel, where he has to run to get out of it. In the end he returns to his girlfriend's father, but since he failed in every way he is given a gun to shoot himself. Buster however manages to miss himself and is therefore kicked out the window by the girl's father.

Cast

* Buster Keaton as The Young Man *

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as The Girl * Edward F. Cline as The Theater Director (uncredited) *

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as The Girl's Father (uncredited) * Joe Roberts as The Mayor (uncredited)

Production

Filmed, in part, in

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, Oakland, and Los Angeles.

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''Day Dreams''
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Day Dreams 1922 films 1922 comedy films 1922 short films Silent American comedy films American silent short films American black-and-white films American comedy short films Films directed by Buster Keaton Films directed by Edward F. Cline Films produced by Joseph M. Schenck Films with screenplays by Buster Keaton Films with screenplays by Roscoe Arbuckle Articles containing video clips Films shot in Los Angeles Films shot in San Francisco 1920s American films

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