Comedy · War · Romance
American
1926 · Directed by Buster Keaton · 79 min
During the American Civil War, a Southern railway engineer is rejected by the army and loses the two things he loves: his locomotive and his sweetheart. What follows is a long, escalating chase across enemy territory, built almost entirely from physical comedy and precise staging.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of the silent comedy golden age, it fuses slapstick with epic scale and an almost architectural sense of cinematic space, setting a standard for the chase film.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a piece of choreography: every gag is a problem of space, timing and objects solved with the body.
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