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The Railrodder

  • 19651965
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 24m
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7.0/10
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Buster Keaton in The Railrodder (1965)
ComedyShort
After literally walking to Canada from England, Buster takes a cross-country trip across Canada on a railway motorcar (speeder).After literally walking to Canada from England, Buster takes a cross-country trip across Canada on a railway motorcar (speeder).After literally walking to Canada from England, Buster takes a cross-country trip across Canada on a railway motorcar (speeder).
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
1.6K
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    • Gerald Potterton
    • Buster Keaton(uncredited)
    • John Spotton(uncredited)
    • Gerald Potterton
    • Buster Keaton(uncredited)
    • Buster Keaton
    • Gerald Potterton
    • Buster Keaton(uncredited)
    • John Spotton(uncredited)
    • Gerald Potterton
    • Buster Keaton(uncredited)
    • Buster Keaton
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    • 24User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    • Trivia
      The gag with Buster Keaton unraveling a newspaper while negotiating a steep bridge is a reworking of a similar gag from Keaton's silent short The 'High Sign' (1921). Director Gerald Potterton argued with Keaton over the danger of the gag, but eventually Keaton did it his own way with no problems.
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    6/10
    Ode to Canada
    The film that I was really reminded of here turned out to have been Powell and Pressburger's "49th Parallel" -- a slice through almost exactly the same set of coast-to-coast scenery. I had no idea I could recognise Canada subconsciously like that...

    "The Railrodder" is an amiable and slightly surreal travelogue, which bears a resemblance at times to a live-action version of the adventures of the Road Runner or other cartoon antics: e.g. a massive freight train vanishes into one end of a tunnel, a small railcar enters the other, and the sound of an almighty smash-up is heard from within... to unexpected result! However, despite this and the featuring of a dialogue-free Buster Keaton in the principal role (one he must surely have relished, given the emphasis on his beloved trains) it isn't really a comedy as such, but more of an off-beat ode to the Canadian landscape. There are at least two laugh-out-loud gags to treasure, though: the very typical Keaton-solution to rain in one's teacup, and the arrival of an equally intrepid voyager from the Pacific coast.

    An odd little light-weight piece, on the whole amusing.
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    • Apr 12, 2006

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      • October 2, 1965 (United States)
      • Canada
      • -The original film
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      • Entrance, Alberta, Canada
    • Production company
      • National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
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    • 24 minutes
      • Color
      • Silent

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