In order to live up to the terms of a windfall inheritance, Buster has one day to find a bride. Confidence leads to desperation and finally panic as he is reduced to "proposing to anyone in skirts, including a Scotsman." Seven Chances builds to an outrageous sequence of events which were too absurd even for Keaton's taste and it ranked relatively low in his estimation. But the film is all the more contemporary for its wild conceits. Keaton's influence on Monty Python is nowhere better seen than in the set-piece chase: 500 angry would-be brides of all stripes, some of them even women, pursuing Buster hither and yon into an open field and the heart of a rockslide. Be prepared, however, for racist sight gags of the sort common in many silents and all too many talkies.