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.