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DVD

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The general

Call Number

  • DVD COMEDY (CEN)

Edition

Ultimate 2 disc ed. ; Full screen version.

Languages

Silent film with English intertitles.

Performers

Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glenn Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom.

Publication Information

New York : Kino on Video, [2008]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (78 min.) : sd., b&w & col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit, and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee, young Johnny Gray is given a chance to redeem himself when Yankee spies steal his cherished locomotive. Johnny wages a one-man war against hijackers, an errant cannon and the unpredictable hand of fate while roaring along the iron rails.

Notes

Adapted by Al Boasberg and Charles Smith from William Pittenger's "The Great Locomotive Chase."

Original feature is color tinted; special features in color with black and white sequences.

DVD release of the 1926 silent film.

Special features: three musical scores; video tour of the authentic General; behind-the-scenes home movie footage; filmed introduction by Gloria Swanson; filmed introduction by Orson Welles; "The Buster Express": a brisk montage of train gags from throughout Keaton's career.

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