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Blank Check with Griffin & David
Battling Butler / The General with Jamelle Bouie
Battling Butler / The General with Jamelle Bouie
Published:
May 28, 2023, 4 a.m.
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One of narrative cinema\\u2019s earliest training sequences, and one of cinema\\u2019s most famous trains - that\\u2019s right, we\\u2019re covering Buster Keaton\\u2019s 1926 films BATTLING BUTLER and THE GENERAL. Gentleman, scholar, and action movie aficionado Jamelle Bouie joins us to unpack this week\\u2019s double feature, providing some essential historical context for THE GENERAL\\u2019s unfortunate Civil War\\xa0 setting. Plus, Ben starts researching how one buys a train.
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