The Railrodder (1965) Reviews & Ratings

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The Railrodder reviews

The Railrodder holds a 6.8/10 average from 52 TMDB ratings.

After reading an advertisement advocating a visit to Canada, our intrepid adventurer (Buster Keaton) jumps into the Thames and swims all the way there! Once he arrives - remarkably dry and fit - he commandeers a railroad engineer's truck and embarks on a musically enhanced (think Ry Cooder morphing into some lively harmonica) journey at break speed across the 3,500-odd miles from east to west. Along the way we trave…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)

After literally swimming across the Atlantic Ocean, an Englishman takes a country trip across Canada on a railcar.

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