Film · 1926 · Comedy
The General
Directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman
1926
★ 8.6 editorial score
Keaton did every stunt himself and dropped a real locomotive through a burning bridge: it flopped, cost him his independence within two years, and is now considered the great silent comedy.
“Keaton is Johnnie Gray, a locomotive driver in the south during the civil war, who has the long hair, dreamy gaze and slight build of a romantic poet. When his engine, "the General", is stolen by northern saboteurs, Johnnie single-handedly journeys behind enemy lines to retrieve it and rescue the woman he loves.”
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