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Overview
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
Details
- 💥Action🗺Adventure😂Comedy
Release
1926-12-25
Directors
Original language
English
Runtime
1 hour 18 minutes
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Reelviews
With his famously unsmiling features and limber body, the film highlights Buster Keaton's agility, flexibility, and willingness to do almost anything for a laugh.
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The Guardian
Buster Keaton's pioneering 1926 silent film The General – now on rerelease – looks even more startling than ever.
theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/23/the-general-buster-keaton-review
Oregon Encyclopedia
Buster Keaton's masterpiece and one of the greatest silent movies of all time was filmed in the Cottage Grove area in the summer of 1926. The General is a Civil War tale, the fictionalized account of an attempted hijacking of a Confederate train called the General by Union spies in 1862.
oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/the_general_film/
Variety
The General is far from fussy. Its principal comedy scene is built on that elementary bit, the chase, and you can’t continue a fight for almost an hour and expect results.
variety.com/1926/film/reviews/the-general-1200409824/#!
Cinephilia
Made for $US415,000, at the time a huge budget, under the banner of United Artists, The General is a superbly composed film that bombed at the box office but is now recognized as one of the major works of American silent film and Keaton's best.
cinephilia.net.au/show_review.php?movieid=2491
MovingPictureHistoryBlog
"Keaton’s dauntingly ambitious and remarkably accomplished 1927 comedy is universally recognized as one of the enduring classics of the silent era."
movingpicturehistoryblog.com/2010/09/general-1927.html
Letterboxd
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
letterboxd.com/film/the-general/details/
