🎬🎭 See legendary silent clown Buster Keaton in one of his later screen appearances with The Devil to Pay (1960). This lighthearted television short highlights Keaton’s timeless slapstick style, proving that even in the sound era he could still deliver laughs with his trademark stone-faced humor and physical comedy.
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✨ About the Film: Produced for television in 1960, The Devil to Pay places Keaton in a whimsical tale of comic mischief and mistaken fortune. While not as famous as his silent-era classics, it offers fans a rare glimpse of Keaton’s enduring screen presence and his ability to adapt his slapstick genius to new formats.
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00:00it all began just nine years ago at Cape Canaveral Florida that was the year we
00:19launched our first successful rocket but it was the second that caused the
00:23trouble it was called Explorer 2 if you remember it thundered off in first-class
00:38fashion then suddenly the radio signals became gobbled if not rude shortly after
00:52that they stopped all together in a matter of minutes the Pentagon was
01:00informed and the whole establishment sprang into action immediately
01:08everyone rose magnificently to the occasion and only in one quarter of the
01:12world was there a hint of a snicker after a fruitless search it was decided
01:17that Explorer 2 had disintegrated in space and only recently did the whole story
01:21come to light instead of going into orbit around the Earth Explorer 2 headed
01:27directly for a small planet known variously as Tartarus Sheol and Hades and ruled by a
01:32most treacherous dictator called Diabolus
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11:35Naughty man.
11:37You've been picking Esther's dimorthophagus.
11:41But Esther will forgive you, I am sure.
11:45If you promise one thing, you must promise to join our fight.
11:51Get everyone to write his congressman these three words.
11:55Eliminate the middlemen.
11:59You must say, you must say, hope to die.
15:39Congressional offices were snowed under.
15:46Congress dropped everything to heed the will of the people.
15:50Wholesaling was prohibited by law.
15:52And for a time, only the wholesalers themselves seemed to be affected.
15:56But then little headaches began to develop.
16:06But then little headaches began to develop.
16:08Retailers had to think a lot of orders must be sent direct to the manufacturer, even if he
16:20was on the other side of the country.
16:22Manufacturing order departments were the first order departments were the first to feel the
16:52cost of the company.
16:53It was going to take help.
16:57It was going to take help, lots of it, help, please, anything for help.
17:03The cost, of course, would go on the merchandise.
17:06Human error crept in.
17:16Human error crept in, and headaches multiplied.
17:19Long-distance protests had to take help.
17:20Long-distance protests had to come out of profits.
17:28Long-distance protests had to come out of profits.
17:30Or did they?
17:32Soon they, too, were added to the cost of merchandise.
17:35Retailers grew to hate manufacturers.
17:53And what was worse, customers grew to hate retailers.
17:58And retailers themselves began to entertain unwholesome thoughts about customers, like
18:02good riddance.
18:09New product announcements were filed and forgotten.
18:12New products were so many pigs in pokes to wary and worried retailers.
18:22Now manufacturers dispatched huge sales staffs to get out and demonstrate new products, as
18:28the old wholesalers had done for them.
18:32New products began to skyrocket, out of the sheer inefficiency of it all.
18:38Next they built warehouses everywhere the wholesaler had been.
18:43The cost, of course, went on to the merchandise.
18:57And manufacturers of seasonal goods had empty warehouses sometimes half the year.
19:03The consumer paid the needless rent.
19:06Prices kept going up and up.
19:08And now stores were closing to customers a good part of the time.
19:13How else could the mass of manufacturing salesmen be interviewed and stocks replenished?
19:19There was no single wholesaler to take the load off the retailer anymore.
19:30And without the wholesaler, deliveries could no longer be consolidated.
19:34The situation became utterly absurd.
19:38Everyone was saying, what a way to run a business.
19:44The chaos soon turned into hysteria.
19:57Even the price tags were troubled with the same affliction.
20:03Super supermarkets controlled by a few large operators managed to corner what few supplies there were.
20:28But now the people rebelled.
20:31They would not buy anything, anything that is, but essentials.
20:43Manufacturers and small businessmen had no choice but to get out of business.
20:55All across the country, there was the devil to pay.
21:16My feet are killing me.
21:25Oh, look, dear.
21:27I got a little treat for us.
21:30Oh, many you shouldn't have.
21:33They're so expensive.
21:35They were unspecial.
21:38Two for only 95 cents.
21:42Just like the old days, isn't it?
21:49Oh, Esther.
21:51I can't bear to think about it.
21:54Those good old days.
21:57Anything we wanted.
21:59Every store stuffed with goodies.
22:02And all at lovely prices we could afford.
22:11In the good old days, the wholesaler was the hub of enterprise.
22:17He collected goods in bulk lots from manufacturers everywhere,
22:21allowing them to move merchandise as fast as produced,
22:25and maintained stocks at convenient locations throughout the country.
22:30The wholesaling hub was always a fully stocked warehouse ready to meet any retailing demands efficiently and economically,
22:37and permits savings that could be passed on to the customer.
22:46The wholesalers distributed the goods in smaller quantities as needed to the retailers in towns, cities, and even crossroads,
22:53and extended credit that would permit the retailer to achieve a maximum volume of business with a minimum of capital.
23:00Without the wholesaling hub of enterprise, it was inevitable that only disorganization and spiraling costs would result.
23:09No wonder the country was in despair.
23:13Oh, Esther, I can't bear to think of it.
23:18You know, sometimes I get the feeling that I am responsible for all these terrible times.
23:24Remember our civic attitude of the week, and I said we should get rid of the middleman?
23:30Well, I have a funny feeling we did.
23:35I don't know how exactly, but...
23:38Esther, I think that funny-looking little man that came along while I was speaking,
23:44you know, the one that picked your dimorthop... your daisies,
23:49well, I think he had something to do with it.
23:53I never confessed this before,
23:56but that night I had to get up in the middle of the night.
24:00I never have to do that.
24:03Well, certainly not to write to my congressman.
24:08But that night something woke me and made me get up and write,
24:13Eliminate the middleman.
24:16Well, I had to get dressed and go to the mailbox.
24:21It was silly, but I couldn't stop myself.
24:26You know, Minnie, exactly the same thing happened to me.
24:31Esther, it didn't!
24:34Oh, dear, do you suppose...
24:40Oh, Esther, look!
24:44What shall we do?
24:46I don't know, but we must do something!
24:50Hello!
24:52We were just talking about you.
24:59We were just saying that you're the cleverest man we ever saw.
25:04Didn't we, Esther?
25:07Yes, and we were betting there wasn't anything you couldn't do.
25:13Come, why don't you sit down right here between us?
25:25You're such a sensitive man, and you love flowers, don't you?
25:32Especially Dimorthothicus.
25:35Poor Esther.
25:36Her lovely Dimorthothicus were ruined.
25:41Absolutely ruined.
25:43The thrips got them.
25:45Esther was so sad.
25:48Oh, dear, I do wish you'd do us just the teensiest little favor.
25:55You would? Promise?
25:58Cross your heart.
26:00Hope to die.
26:03Well, get everyone to write his congressman these three little words.
26:10Restore the wholesaler.
26:18Remember, you promised.
26:24Please.
26:40Hope for a meme.
26:56Please.
26:57Acts of the Monsters by the World
26:59She really saw the most beautifulweek miles event política,
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