Movie #: 380 Title: GENERAL 1927

Rating: 9.50

Director (last): KEATON (first): BUSTER

Writer (last): BOASBERG (first): AL

One of the most wonderful, compact little films ever made, by one of the most under-rated Hollywood stars, Buster Keaton, Mr. Stoneface. Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a locomotive engineer, who is in love with Annabelle Lee. When the civil war begins, she expects her hero to march off and join, and he tries, but the army turns him down because the trains are necessary to the war effort. When his beloved locomotive, the General, is stolen by Yankee sabatoeurs, he gets his chance to contribute to the war effort. He pursues the train, and Annabelle- who has been kidnapped-- and rescues both, in some of the most hair-raising stunts ever committed to film. The General is an elegant, tightly focussed, marvelous piece of work.

Is this movie a "gem"? No

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Added: 1979-01-01 [yyyy-mm-dd]