The General (1926)

The General is a 1926 American silent comedy 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.

Directed by Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton. With Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley. When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.

The General is an American silent comedy film released by United Artists inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, which happened in 1862. Buster Keaton starre...

A scene from one of Buster's most famous silents, The General. It is considered one of the greatest film's ever made and was ranked number 18 by the American...

Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern railroad engineer who loves his train engine, The General, almost as much as he loves Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack). When the opening shots of the Civil War are fired at Fort Sumter, Johnny tries to enlist -- and he is deemed too useful as an engineer to be a soldier. All Johnny knows is that he's been rejected, and Annabelle, thinking him a coward, turns her back on him. When Northern spies steal the General (and, unwittingly, Annabelle), the story switches from drama and romance to adventure mixed with Keaton's trademark deadpan humor as he uses every means possible to catch up to the General, thwart the Yankees, and rescue his darling Annabelle -- for starters. As always, Keaton performs his own stunts, combining his prodigious dexterity, impeccable comic timing, and expressive body language to convey more emotion than the stars of any of the talkies that were soon to dominate cinema. ~ Emru Townsend, Rovi

Buster Keaton was not the Great Stone Face so much as a man who

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The General (1927) is an imaginative masterpiece of dead-pan "Stone-Face" Buster Keaton comedy, generally regarded as one of the greatest of all silent comedies (and Keaton's own favorite) - and undoubtedly the best train film ever made.

A Buster Keaton classic. Johnnie loves his train ('The General') and Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War begins he is turned down for service because he's more valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks it's because he's a coward. Union spies capture The General with Annabelle on board. Johnny must rescue both his loves. See also the highly acclaimed from Kino Lorber films.Housed at: Internet ArchiveUnderlying Work: PD U.S. | Digital Copy: No Additional RightsDownload: MPEG4 | Torrent

Of the three great American clowns of the silent era, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, Keaton has emerged, by and large, as the cinephiles’ favourite over Chaplin, who was the greater star of his day and held the pre-eminent position in critics’ eyes for the first half of the last century. Much of…