Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

📊 Series Specifications

Network ITV1, Channel 4
Episode Runtime ~53 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 3
Original Language EN

Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987)

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Synopsis

A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Episode One

Covering Keaton's early years - from being a child performer in vaudeville to the creation of his masterpiece, The Navigator, in 1924.

E2 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.

E3 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.