Buster Keaton Rides Again

3/14/2024

Did you know that it was actually the legendary "Fatty" Arbuckle who gave Keaton his first break in cinema? That was when he was an extra on some "Keystone Cops" sketches and the star saw potential in this former Vaudeville artist. This documentary itself doesn't so much offer us a career retrospective, but follows the man as he looks rather fish-out-of-water like making the Canadian film "The Railrodder" (1965). It's here that he attempts to rekindle some of the magic that he so successfully brought to silent cinema in the 1920s with the likes of "Sherlock Jr" (1924) and, of course, "The General" (1926). What we do see here is a measure of the man's professionalism and of his creative genius in a medium that even though it has largely outgrown his methods, can still appreciate the adeptne