Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow: Season 1

Air Date

September 30, 1987

Episodes

3 episodes

Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

Season 1

Episodes

Episode One

1. Episode One

September 30, 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.

Episode Two

2. Episode Two

October 7, 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.

Episode Three

3. Episode Three

October 14, 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.