Buster Keaton at his very best, with his trademark stoic, deadpan expressions that earned him the nickname The Great Stone Face . The General. Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made. THE GENERAL is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing. Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit, and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), young Johnny Gray (Keaton) is given a chance to redeem himself when Yankee spies steal his cherished locomotive. Johnny wages a one-man war against... hijackers, an errant cannon and the unpredictable hand of fate while roaring along the iron rails. Steamboat Bill Jr. The last of the independent features made in the prime of Buster Keaton s career. STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. is a large-scale follow-up to The General. Keaton stars as William Canfield, Jr., a Boston collegian who returns to his deep-southern roots to reunite with his father, a crusty riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence) who is engaged in a bitter rivalry with a riverboat king coincidentally, the father of Willies sweetheart (Marion Byron). Keaton s athleticism and gift for inventive visual humor are in top form, and the cyclone that devastates a town (and sends houses literally crashing down around him) is perhaps the most ambitious, awe-inspiring and hilarious slapstick sequence ever created. THE NAVIGATOR. In a return to the pampered youth role he had played in The Saphead (and would return to in Battling Butler), Keaton stars as Rollo Treadway, an inexperienced lad of extraordinary wealth and surprisingly little common sense, who finds himself adrift on The Navigator with no one else on board except an equally naive girl (Kathryn McGuire). After discovering each other s presence in an ingenious ballet of unintentional hide-and-seek, the couple resourcefully fashion a home for themselves aboard the derelict boat, in spite of their unfamiliarity with the tools of domesticity. They then embark on a series of misadventures on the ocean floor (where Rollo in a diving suit must parry the attacks of an aggressive swordfish) and upon the high seas, surrounded by a fleet of menacing cannibals, where the film reaches its explosively funny climax, with the aid of a crate of rocket flares. [show more]
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Collection of three silent films starring Buster Keaton. In 'The Navigator' (1924), Keaton stars as Rollo Treadway, a wealthy socialite who has decided to propose to his beautiful neighbour, Betsy O'Brien (Kathryn McGuire). Although Betsy rejects his offer of marriage, he decides to go on their honeymoon alone as he had already booked passage on a cruise to Honolulu. When he gets on the ship however, he realises that he has boarded the wrong vessel and he is currently sailing on the Navigator owned by Betsy's father (Frederick Vroom) and is bound for a country at war. Keaton co-writes, co-directs and stars in the action comedy 'The General' (1926), inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862. Set during the American Civil War, the film follows southerner Johnnie Gray (Keaton) who is denied entry into the Confederate Army due to the valuable work he does as an engineer. However, his fiancée Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack) believes he has failed to sign up because of his cowardice. When Johnnie's train, The General, is stolen by Unionists with Annabelle still on board, he gets the chance to prove his bravery and embarks on a hair-raising adventure to save his love. Finally, in 'Steamboat Bill Jr.' (1928), William 'Steamboat Bill' Canfield (Ernest Torrence) is the owner of a paddle steamer that is rapidly falling into disrepair. As he works hard to try and compete for business with tycoon John James King (Tom McGuire), his son, William Jr. (Keaton) shows up to help. William Jr., however, is not the strapping lad that he expected, having not seen him since he was a baby; instead he turns up sporting a pencil moustache and a beret. Steamboat Bill is even more distraught when he learns that his son has fallen in love with Kitty King (Marion Byron), the daughter of his rival...
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