Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Chaplin Tonight on TCM!

[Gothic Sponge]

12:00 AM The General (1927) In this silent film, a Confederate engineer fights to save his train and his girlfriend from the Union army. Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender. D: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman. 75m.

1:30 AM The Freshman (1925) In this silent film, a naive college boy tries to join the football team after making a fool out of himself. Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict. D: Fred C. Newmeyer. BW 76m.

2:45 AM City Lights (1931) In this silent film, the Little Tramp tries to help a blind flower seller to see again. Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers. D: Charles Chaplin. BW 83m.

4:15 AM Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003) Documentary that takes a comprehensive look at the life and career of the greatest comic icon the world has ever known. BW & C 132m. LBX CC

[gmoney]

1. They showed Citizen Kane earlier...

GREAT movie, gets better each time I see it.

[KoKo]

2. Harold Lloyd Rocks...I posted some links down in the "Classic Films"

section of DU Groups Forum...I missed seeing the reprise but a few years ago PBS did a series of all of his films. I couldn't believe how incredible they were for "silent films." He is a master and is overlooked in Chaplin's wake...but I like him better than Chaplin...for different reasons of my own. Maybe just my sense of humor...

I'm a big Buster Keaton fan too. Johnny Depp has always reminded me of Keaton in his way of acting..but I've never seen anything where Depp talks about being a Keaton fan. It's Depp's way of "miming" I think that made me think of it...but I could be seeing something that isn't there in the comparison.

[Gothic Sponge]

3. Harold Lloyd is extremely underrated.

He was brilliant. Good observation about Johnny Depp. I'll see if i can find out any info if he was inspired by Keaton.

[SPQR]

4. Check out Benny and Joon

and you'll see how right on the money you are.

[KoKo]

5. Yes I think that's the first one I noticed the comparison..and it was one

of his firsts if not the first movie he made...:shrug:

There was even a little in Pirates although not as much as in his others..though.

[elperromagico]

6. Keaton's always been my favorite of the Big Three.

He's a lone man against the world - against machines, against nature.

Yet, things bend to his own odd logic - a house falls down on him in just such a way so that he's standing right in the attic window, a car becomes a sailboat as soon as it hits the water, a film on a theater screen becomes something he can simply leap into at will...

I also like Keaton better as a director and actor. He never asks you for sympathy, as Chaplin often does. You either give it to him or you don't; it doesn't affect Buster one way or the other.

And of course, nobody fell like Buster...

[enigmatic]

7. We don't get TCM up in Canada...

But that sounds great. Keaton was GOD; even the commercials he made in the late 50's-early 60's were hilarious...

[flygal]

8. Finally saw "The Kid" last year and bawled like a...well, kid.