The Railrodder

The Railrodder (24 min; 1965)
Director: Gerald Potterton

Recipient of the Honorable Mention for Short Film, Berlin International Film Festival 1965

In one of the last films of the comedian’s long career, Buster Keaton stars as a “railrodder” crossing Canada from east to west on a railway track speeder. True to Keaton's genre, the film is full of sight gags as our protagonist putt-putts his way to British Columbia. Not a word is spoken throughout, and Keaton is as spry and ingenious at fetching laughs as he was in the old days of the silent slapsticks.