Buster Keaton made his feature-film debut in THE SAPHEAD, an atypical, but amusing, yarn based on an old theatrical warhorse called "The Henrietta," which was previously filmed with Douglas Fairbanks in 1915 as THE LAMB.
Bertie Van Alstyne (Buster Keaton), the pampered, milquetoast son of Wall Street tycoon Nicholas Van Alstyne (William H. Crane), is in love with his father's ward, Agnes (Beulah Booker), but Nick won't let Bertie marry her until he gets a job and makes something of himself. Nick's daughter Rose
(Carol Holloway) is married to crooked investment broker Mark Turner (Irving Cummings), who works for Nick, and who has secretly fathered a daughter with...
Released:
1920
Rated:
NR
Length:
77 mins