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The Railrodder

The Railrodder

| 24 min

This short film from director Gerald Potterton (Heavy Metal) stars Buster Keaton in one of the last films of his long career. As "the railrodder", Keaton crosses Canada from east to west on a railway track speeder. True to Keaton's genre, the film is full of sight gags as our protagonist putt-putts his way to British Columbia. Not a word is spoken throughout, and Keaton is as spry and ingenious at fetching laughs as he was in the old days of the silent slapsticks.

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Credits
  • writer
    Gerald Potterton
  • director
    Gerald Potterton
  • producer
    Julian Biggs
  • camera
    Robert Humble
  • music
    Eldon Rathburn
  • editing
    Jo Kirkpatrick
    Gerald Potterton
  • assistant director
    Jo Kirkpatrick
  • sound effects
    Karl Duplessis
  • sound recording
    George Croll
    Ted Haley
  • cast
    Buster Keaton
    Kats R. Nasu

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