Pardon My Berth Marks

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Pardon My Berth Marks
Directed by Jules White
Written by Clyde Bruckman
Produced byJules White
Starring Buster Keaton
Dorothy Appleby
Vernon Dent
Richard Fiske
Ned Glass
John Tyrrell
Bud Jamison
Jack Lipson
Cinematography Benjamin H. Kline
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • March 22, 1940 (1940-03-22)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Pardon My Berth Marks is the fourth short subject starring American comedian Buster Keaton made for Columbia Pictures. Keaton made a total of ten films for the studio between 1939 and 1941.

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Synopsis

Elmer (Buster) is a newspaper reporter who boards a train and innocently becomes involved with a mobster's wife.

Production

Columbia remade this film in 1947 (with Harry Von Zell) as Rolling Down to Reno.


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