A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride

A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride (2026)

N/A 52 min Movie
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.

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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)
Red Skelton Red Skelton Self (Archival)
Gerald Potterton Gerald Potterton Self (Archival)

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