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THE GENERAL

1926

Director

Buster Keaton

Clyde Bruckman

Starring

Buster Keaton

Marion Mack

Runtime

79 minutes

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Buster Keaton’s most lavish production and his warmest, bringing together a boy, a girl and a train amid the maelstrom of the US Civil War. Taking inspiration from an incident when Union soldiers hijacked a Confederate train, THE GENERAL was silent comedian Buster Keaton’s most grandly conceived project. The train driver who goes in dogged pursuit of his beloved engine is a classic Keaton character: stoical, determined and preternaturally straight-faced as chaos reigns around him. The film is a seamless blend of action and comedy, involving a dizzying number of stunts — including a legendary sequence in which a bridge bearing a railroad train collapses into a gorge while putting Tom Cruise to absolute shame.

“So crazy that people have been trying to make an action movie better than this for almost a hundred years and haven't even come close.” - Sydney Wegner
Part of the series

SHADOWLAND