

Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
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September 30, 1987
1 Season • 3 Episodes
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A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.
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A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.

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September 30, 1987 • 53m
Covering Keaton's early years - from being a child performer in vaudeville to the creation of his masterpiece, The Navigator, in 1924.

October 7, 1987 • 53m
Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.

October 14, 1987 • 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.