A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride (2026)
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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Buster Keaton as Self (Archival) |
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Roscoe Arbuckle as Self (Archival) |
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Marion Mack as Self (Archival) |
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Sybil Seely as Self (Archival) |
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Joe Keaton as Self (Archival) |
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Natalie Talmadge as Self (Archival) |
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Joe Roberts as Self (Archival) |
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Glen Cavender as Self (Archival) |
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Red Skelton as Self (Archival) |
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Gerald Potterton as Self (Archival) |
| Writing | Luke Ryan | Writer |
| Editing | Luke Ryan | Editor |
| Production | Jacob Milligan | Producer |
