January, 1922 marked the release of Buster Keaton’s silent comedy short The Paleface.  In this western parody Buster plays an innocent butterfly collector who accidentally walks onto an Indian reservation whose inmates have vowed to “kill the next white man [they] see”. The natives are treated sympathetically (they are being swindled by unscrupulous agents, a common western […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:50AM on January 1, 2015