Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow › Miniseries
S01E02 Episode Two
Synopsis
Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.
Season
1
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow - S01E02
Direct and secure download
All episodes — Miniseries
Episode One
Covering Keaton's early years - from being a child performer in vaudeville to the creation of his masterpiece, The Navigator, in 1924.
Episode Two
Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.
Episode Three
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.