A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride
MAY 18, 2026 · 52 MIN · DIR. LUKE RYAN
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.
Cast
Buster Keaton
Self (Archival)
Roscoe Arbuckle
Self (Archival)
Marion Mack
Self (Archival)
Sybil Seely
Self (Archival)
Joe Keaton
Self (Archival)
Natalie Talmadge
Self (Archival)
Joe Roberts
Self (Archival)
Glen Cavender
Self (Archival)
Red Skelton
Self (Archival)
Gerald Potterton
Self (Archival)
Crew
Writer
Luke Ryan
Editor
Luke Ryan
Producer
Jacob Milligan
