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The High Sign

The High Sign

Apr 18, 1921
21 min
CrimeComedy
7.1/ 10
119 votes

Overview

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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7.1/10
119 votes
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7.6/10
3,670 votes
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"What A Predicament!"

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Joseph M. Schenck Productions

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