Notes on…

The General(1926)

Dir. Directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman

My favourite Buster Keaton. Couldn't stop laughing when his girlfriend was feeding wood into the furnace and notices a hole in one of the planks… and then sweeps up a few minutes later.

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During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.