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The High Sign
1921 · Film · short · 21 min
Directed by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
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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That’s literally how high signs work - they’re plausibly deniable, and innocuous or indecipherable to those in the out-group, and/or a shibboleth signifying being part of the in-group.
> The title refers to the secret hand signal used by the film's underworld gang.
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