The Importance of Norma Talmett

The film contains Buster Keaton's most iconic gag ever, which is the side of the house falling at him somehow perfectly landing in the window. He runs to his mark and then it falls. So it's not like he's preset there. If he were an intro of his mark, he would die. Now what I heard is that they took 35 takes and he died the first day of four. That's what I remember.

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