THE GENERAL

Silent Film

Buster Keaton, Marian Mack

United Artists; Directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman

Black and White; Not Rated; 75 minutes; 1926

THE GENERAL is the exciting and funny Horatio Alger tale of the little train engineer who couldn’t get into the Confederate army during the Civil War. Denied the chance to shoulder arms, this spiritually undaunted hero single-handedly captures a Union train and rescues the fair heroine. The climactic locomotive chase is one of the most exciting scenes in screen history—a testimony to Buster Keaton as a superb action director.