Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

Miniseries

1987 · 3 episodes · 2h 38m in all

Episodes

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   1. Episode One

   30 Sept 1987 · 53 min

   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

   7 Oct 1987 · 53 min

   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

   14 Oct 1987 · 52 min

   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.