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With Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley. After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.
- (99K)
- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
- 1927-01-02
Box office. $1 million. The General is a 1926 American silent film released by United Artists. It was inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War. The story was adapted from the 1889 memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.
One of the most revered comedies of the silent era, this film finds hapless Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) facing off against Union s...
- 107 min
- 19.4K
- Retrospective - Classic Movies
Dec 31, 2014 · The General is one of the greatest films ever made. There's no use trying to avoid exaggeration on this point. The story is simple: A railway engineer caught up in the civil war makes good, and saves his girl from the enemy.
- 79 min
- 249.8K
- Moongleam
The General. Taking inspiration from a real Civil War incident when Union soldiers hijacked a Confederate train, The General was silent comedian Buster Keaton’s most grandly conceived project.
Mar 16, 2014 · The General (Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, 1926), which he considered his favourite, was Keaton’s last independently produced film and in many ways presents the apotheosis of his style. The General tells the story of Johnnie Gray (Keaton), a Tennessean railroad engineer who is pressured by his fiancé, Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), to join the ...
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The General is probably Buster Keatons's most famous film, regarded by many as a silent comedy masterpiece. But it was also a disastrous one as far as Keaton was concerned, an expensive box office failure that led to his moving to MGM and losing his creative freedom.
