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6[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Hard_Luck_3499.jpg]]
7[[caption-width-right:350:Goodbye, cruel world.]]
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9->''Fired from his job, jilted by his girl, down on his luck...''
10-->-- '''opening title'''
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12In this 1921 short, a despondent Creator/BusterKeaton decides to end it all, but then he gets a job, meets a girl (Creator/VirginiaFox) and his luck changes -- or does it? {{Hilarity ensues}}.
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14"Hard Luck" can be seen at [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8727552817849141561# Google Video.]]
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17!!"Hard Luck" contains examples of
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19* AlliterativeName: Lizard Lip Luke.
20* AnvilOnHead: Averted. Buster tries to set this up with a safe being hoisted with a rope and pulley, but fails.
21* BeachEpisode: Much of the action is set at a country club with a pool.
22%%* BearsAreBadNews
23* BlackComedy: Did I mention that Buster spends much of the film trying to die?
24* BornUnlucky: Luck just hates Buster in this entire short.
25* BungledSuicide: In a bit of BlackComedy, Buster attempts to kill himself several times, only for it to fail spectacularly.
26%%* ChaseScene
27%%* CunningLikeAFox
28* DiggingToChina: Or in this case, diving to China.
29* DraggedByTheCollar: Literally, and by the seat of his pants.
30* DrinkingOnDuty: A crafty waiter who conceals his whiskey by labeling it as poison.
31* {{Fanservice}}: The country club's pool is an excuse to put several actresses in bathing suits; later, Buster takes a dip and dresses accordingly.
32%%* GloveSlap
33%%* HorribleCampingTrip
34%%* HumanLadder: Actually, human mounting block.
35%%* IHaveYouNowMyPretty
36* ImprovisedWeapon: Fishing rod versus handgun.
37* IncrediblyLamePun: Some time after Buster tries to hang himself from a tree.
38-->'''Safari sponsor:''' "Are you attached to a scientific organization?"
39-->'''Buster:''' "I was attached to a branch of the zoo."
40* InterruptedSuicide: The first fourth of the film is a series of unsuccessful suicide attempts.
41* LargeAndInCharge: Joe Roberts as Lizard Lip Luke.
42%%* LoveAtFirstSight
43%%* LoveTriangle
44%%* TheManTheyCouldntHang
45%%* NobodyHereButUsStatues
46* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Why Buster hunts for an armadillo.
47%%* OutsideRide
48%%* PaperThinDisguise
49* RailroadTracksOfDoom: Subverted in Buster's suicide attempt involving a trolley.
50* RuleOfFunny: How Buster survives his high dive.
51%%* ShotInTheAss
52%%* {{Slapstick}}
53* SlobsVersusSnobs: Buster wanders into a country club and joins a fox hunt.
54%%* TrainEscape
55%%* UnsuspectinglySoused
56* WalkOnWater: Subverted. Buster tries to mimic a man walking on the surface of a swimming pool -- he turns out to be wearing stilts.
57%%* WantedPoster

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