Slapstick Live: Buster Keaton's The General + Laurel & Hardy's The Finishing Touch
Am 27.4. Live am Piano Neil Brand, Mi, 01.05 18:00 Stephen Horne am Piano, Sa, 04.05. 20:00 am Klavier Ekkehard Wölk
Possibly Keaton’s greatest film, a breakneck locomotive chase through Civil War battlefields which climaxes with the most expensive stunt in silent movie history.
The General,
USA 1926, R: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman mit Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Charles Henry Smith, OV, 79 Min
Lokomotivführer Johnnie liebt seine Lok, genannt Der General sowie die schöne Annabelle Lee. Als Bürgerkriegstruppen die Lok samt Annabelle entführen, tritt Johnnie in Aktion. Endlich kann er zeigen, was in ihm steckt. Stoneface Keaton in seinem berühmtesten Film.
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Possibly Keaton’s greatest film, a breakneck locomotive chase through Civil War battlefields which climaxes with the most expensive stunt in silent movie history.
Laurel & Hardy The Finishing Touch,
1928, Director Clyde Bruckman, starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Coburn and Edgar Kennedy
The Boys are hired to build a house and meet a disaster-prone policeman and a violent nurse.