The General

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The General (this title is also included in the box set of The Art of Buster Keaton)

The greatest of Keaton's films, The General is part comedy and part authentic-looking period drama. Keaton plays a love-struck engineer of a steam locomotive caught in the middle of the Civil War. Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), young Johnny Gray (Keaton) sets out to single-handedly win the war with the help of his cherished locomotive. Accompanied by the shorts The Playhouse (1921) and Cops (1922).

Selected for the Library of Congress' National Film Registry of American Film.

DVD - Kino International

Available Audio Tracks: English (Silent) (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo),
English (Silent) (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Contains Keaton's Feature, The General (1926, Color Tinted, 75 min., Stereo)
Two Keaton shorts: The Playhouse (1921, B&W, 23 min., Mono) and Cops (1922, B&W, 18 min., Mono)

Curator's Comments:
Roger Ebert's essay on this DVD Classic.

Director: Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman
Black & White, Color tinted
75 minutes
Released: 1926
Rating: NR

Country: U.S.A.
Language: silent with English intertitles
Genre:

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