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May 8, 2005 · The film's greatness resides in its majestic opening scenes and its horrifying conclusion. Most viewers dislike the courtship between Gretchen and young Faust, although it is essential to set up her eventual fate -- an ending so bleak that there is not much consolation when the archangel informs Mephisto that "Love" is stronger than all the ...
- Nosferatu movie review & film summary (1922) | Roger Ebert
Murnau's silent film was based on the Bram Stoker novel, but...
- The General movie review & film summary (1927) | Roger Ebert
"The General” is an epic of silent comedy, one of the most...
- Nosferatu movie review & film summary (1922) | Roger Ebert
May 31, 1997 · "The General” is an epic of silent comedy, one of the most expensive films of its time, including an accurate historical recreation of a Civil War episode, hundreds of extras, dangerous stunt sequences, and an actual locomotive falling from a burning bridge into a gorge far below.
The General is a 1926 American silent slapstick Western action 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. The story was adapted from the 1889 memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.
92% Tomatometer 62 Reviews 92% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings One of the most revered comedies of the silent era, this film finds hapless Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton...
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- Buster Keaton
- Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
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1926. Director Robert J. Flaherty's Moana (1926) (aka Moana: A Romance of the South Seas) was released, a Paramount studio-financed, follow-up sequel (of sorts) after his earlier landmark film Nanook of the North (1922) about Eskimo life. The review of the South Seas film by "Moviegoer" John Grierson in the New York Sun was the first time the ...
The General (1926) 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. In The General, Keaton plays Johnnie Gray, an engineer on ...
353 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: Loco and Motive. tedg 14 May 2008. No one will top Keaton for physical risk, and risk is what deep film experiences are all about. This might be classed as a comedy, but for me it touches deeply enough. Its about a man who needs to prove himself by taking risks and being true.
