The High Sign
Release date: 1921-04-18
Votes: 117
Genres: Crime, Comedy
Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daughter by outfitting their home with trick devices.
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