Description
The two things engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) loves most in the world are his Southern belle sweetheart and his locomotive. When Northern spies steal the latter, the intrepid Confederate single-handedly takes on the entire Union army in order to get it back. Against a backdrop of magnificently photographed Civil War battle scenes unfolds one of the great chases in movie history. Set almost entirely aboard moving trains, Keaton's THE GENERAL is physical comedy refined to elegant perfection and widely considered to be the actor-director's greatest film.
Quick Glance
Genre: Comedies
Rating: Not Rated
Relase Company: Hollywood Home Theatre
Format: VHS
UPC:
Here Buster Keaton is a civil war confederate train driver,turned down for active service,who has to rescue his girlfriend and train("The General")stolen by dastardly Union spies.When i first saw this classic i enjoyed it but wondered what all the fuss was about.On repeated viewings it's grown immeasurably and i've no hesitation in placing it among the handful of all-time best comedies...
I am a major Buster Keaton fan. Believe me! And I realize this is what some consider his masterpiece. But I have just never been able to get in to this one as much as I do his other films ("Seven Chances" and "Go West" for example). I guess it's because I like Keaton primarily for his comic talent and this movie capitalized primarily on talents other than that.
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The General (VHS - 1927)
Buster Keaton's golden offering to the vaults of the truly significant creations of film comedy and perhaps all of film. It is still a wonder after 75 years.