Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

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  1. Episode One

  53m

  Covering Keaton's early years - from being a child performer in vaudeville to the creation of his masterpiece, The Navigator, in 1924.

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  2. Episode Two

  53m

  Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.

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  3. Episode Three

  52m

  The great Keaton revival began in 1949 with a tribute in Life Magazine to the silent comics. By the time Keaton died in 1966 he had been acclaimed as one of the giants of the cinema.

Cast

Buster Keaton

Self (archive footage)

Lindsay Anderson

Self - Narrator (voice)

Eleanor Keaton

Self

James Karen

William Collier Jr.

Viola Dana

Marion Mack

Charles Lamont

Self

No photo

William R. Cox

No photo

Loyal T. Lucas

Self

Dean Riesner