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Uniform Title General (Motion picture : 1926)
Title The general / Joseph M. Schenck presents ; a United Artists production ; written and directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman ; adapted by Al Boasberg and Charles Smith
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 75 min.)
Summary Rejected by the Confederate army, and taken for a coward by his beloved, young Johnny Gray is given a chance to redeem himself when he wages a one-man war against Yankee spies who have stolen his locomotive and captured his beloved. Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's The general is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing
Notes Title from title frames
Originally released as a motionallyn picture in 1927
Credits Photography, Dev Jennings and Bert Haines
Cast Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glenn Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom, Charles Smith, Frank Barnes
Notes Silent film with musical accompaniment and English intertitles
Subject Locomotive engineers -- Drama
Railroad trains -- Drama
Man-woman relationships -- Drama
Man-woman relationships.
Locomotive engineers.
Railroad trains.
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Drama
Confederate States of America -- History -- Drama
Subject United States.
United States -- Confederate States of America.
Genre/Form Internet videos.
Comedy films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
History.
Silent films.
Comedy films.
Silent films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Internet videos.
Films comiques.
Films muets.
Adaptations cinématographiques.
Films de fiction.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Form Streaming video
Author Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966, director, screenwriter, actor.
Bruckman, Clyde, 1894-1955, director, screenwriter.
Boasberg, Al, 1892-1937.
Smith, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1865-1942.
Schenck, Joseph M., 1877-1961.
Mack, Marion, 1902-1989.
Cavender, Glen, 1883-1962.
Farley, Jim, 1882-1947.
Vroom, Frederick, 1857-1942.
Pittenger, William, 1840-1904. Great locomotive chase
United Artists Corporation.