This Day in Buster… September 4, 1927 This happened 98 years ago today... Buster Keaton filmed the jaw-dropping house-front stunt for his final independent movie, Steamboat Bill, Jr. Imagine this: the facade of a house weighing about two tons comes crashing down with the storm's fury—but Buster remains standing, framed exactly in an open attic window, spared by mere inches on all sides Legend says his shoes were even nailed to the spot, and a nail marked his precise heel position—he had only two
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