Buster Keaton
Johnny Gray
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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.
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
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
- 247.1K
- Moongleam
After making three features of a more modest scope, The General (1926) marked his return to filmmaking on an ambitious scale. Built around a majestic prop that becomes a character in its own right—a locomotive steam engine—it is still filled with intimate moments.
However, when Union spies steal his treasured locomotive, "The General", with Annabelle aboard, Johnny embarks on a daring quest to rescue both his love and his train. Throughout the film,...
- 79 min
- 3.6K
- All Time Classic Movies
Johnnie Gray is an engineer on his train, The General, on the Western and Atlantic railroad. When war is declared between North and South he does his best to sign up with the Confederate army but is refused because he's in a designated occupation.
When Johnny's fiancée, Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), is accidentally taken away while on a train stolen by Northern forces, Gray pursues the soldiers, using...
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- Comedy, Action, Adventure, Drama, War
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