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Buster Keaton

The Great Stone Face built comedies around impossible machines, collapsing buildings, trains, storms, and perfect timing.

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Keaton’s deadpan performance style and elaborate practical set pieces made his films feel like precision engineering disguised as chaos.

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1926 · Silent comedy

The General

Keaton turns a Civil War locomotive chase into an epic of machinery, movement, and deadpan courage.