The E-Flat Man

Overview

Elmer attempts to elope with his fiancée, but they escape her parents by driving off in a car that's actually owned by a wanted gangster. When they hear on the radio that the police are looking for them, they dump the car and hide out near a farmhouse. But the farmer's radio also broadcasts the couple's description, so they run away and start hitchhiking, only to be picked up by two policemen. They manage to flee into a railroad yard and hop a train that turns out to be refrigerated. Finally they decide to turn themselves in -- just as they learn that the real crooks have been apprehended.

Cast

Buster Keaton

Elmer

Dorothea Kent

Elmer's Girl

Broderick O'Farrell

Mr. Reynolds

Si Jenks

Farmer

Fern Emmett

Farmer's Wife

Charles McAvoy

Jack Shutta

Matthew Betz

Hood with Toothache (uncredited)

Bud Jamison

Cop (uncredited)