Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

Name: Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
Released: 1987-09-30
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Buster Keaton, Lindsay Anderson, Eleanor Keaton, James Karen, William Collier Jr.

7.6

September 30, 1987

1 Season • 3 Episodes

Ended

Documentary

Overview

A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.

Cast

Buster Keaton

Self (archive footage)

Lindsay Anderson

Self - Narrator (voice)

Eleanor Keaton

Self

James Karen

William Collier Jr.

Viola Dana

Marion Mack

Episodes

1. Episode One

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.

2. Episode Two

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.

3. Episode Three

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.

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