Name: Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1987-09-30
Rating: 7.545
Cast: Buster Keaton, Lindsay Anderson, Eleanor Keaton, James Karen, William Collier Jr.

Episodes

1. Episode One

1987-09-30 | 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

1987-10-07 | 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

1987-10-14 | 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.