A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride

A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride

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2026
0h 52m
HD
Documentary

From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic cinematic career across the many tracks he rode along on screen: as a young man in the surge of his silent movie ascent in Our Hospitality, while making his masterpiece The General, and traversing the width of Canada on a railway speeder car as an old man in The Railrodder.

Top Cast

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

Self (Archival)

Roscoe Arbuckle

Roscoe Arbuckle

Self (Archival)

Marion Mack

Marion Mack

Self (Archival)

Sybil Seely

Sybil Seely

Self (Archival)

Joe Keaton

Joe Keaton

Self (Archival)

Natalie Talmadge

Natalie Talmadge

Self (Archival)

Joe Roberts

Joe Roberts

Self (Archival)

Glen Cavender

Glen Cavender

Self (Archival)

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