joke, the scene has appeared in a number of documentaries as an example of pre-Hays Code censorship. Release One Week was released on September 1, 1920. It is noted as the first of Keaton's independent releases, although he had filmed The High Sign earlier. Keaton considered the latter film an inferior effort to debut with, and released it the following year when he was convalescing from an injury. One Week was one of the top-grossing releases of 1920. Reception The New York Times review said: "One Week, a Buster Keaton work, has more fun in it than most slap-stick, trick-property comedies". The Muncie Evening Press wrote: "Buster Keaton's 'One Week' is one of the funniest pictures ever made and plants Buster firmly on his feet as star". The Santa Clarita Valley Signal wrote: "If Buster Keaton in 'One Week' broke loose in a museum he'd tickle the mummies to life again. You never knew such fast and furious fun as this clever comedian provokes in his seven-day wonder". The Akron Evening Times agrees: "It is two reels in length and every foot of the two reels is packed with comedy situations and 'gags' that would start cackles at an undertaker's convention". The Los Angeles Evening Express wrote, "Buster Keaton's 'One Week' stands in a comedy class by itself". By early 1921, the film was being termed "one of the famous Buster Keaton comedies". More than half a century later, New York Times theater and film critic Walter Kerr wrote in his 1975 book The Silent Clowns, "To sit through dozens and dozens of short comedies of the period and then to come upon One Week is to see the one thing no man ever sees: a garden at the moment of blooming." Other uses Some of the themes of One Week were reused in The Three Stooges' short film The Sitter Downers (1937). Guitarist Bill Frisell released a soundtrack to the film in 1995 on his album The High Sign/One Week. See also Buster Keaton filmography References Sources External links One Week essay by Daniel Eagan on the National Film Registry website One Week at the International Buster Keaton Society 1920 films 1920 comedy films Films directed by Buster Keaton Films directed by Edward F. Cline American silent short films American black-and-white films United States National Film Registry films Articles containing video clips Films produced by Joseph M. Schenck Films