The General Silent Comedy, Buster Keaton, Civil War Britannica
Western & Atlantic Railroad train engineer Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton) arrives in Marietta, Georgia, and visits the home of Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), one.
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The General, American silent comedy film, released in 1927, starring and directed by comedian Buster Keaton, and cited by many film historians as one of the greatest American movies. It is set during the American Civil War (1861-65) and highlights the theme of personal redemption. Scene from The General (1927), directed by Buster Keaton.
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The press campaign for The General ironically leaned hard on its historical accuracy, promoting the fact that Keaton had cast real soldiers in the film and visited battle sites. When the movie arrived in Huntsville, Alabama, a local theater offered free admission to Confederate veterans. Although the movie was a critical disaster, Keaton would call The General one of his favorite films until.
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Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian and director. He is best known for his silent film work, in which his trademark was physical comedy accompanied by a stoic, deadpan expression that earned him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".. Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929" when he "worked.
Movie Lovers Reviews Buster Keaton in "The General' (1926) Immortal
The General: Directed by Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton. With Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley. After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.
Movie Lovers Reviews Buster Keaton in "The General' (1926) Immortal
It is a grand achievement. The story of The General comes from a chapter of Civil War history, a true tale of Union spies who infiltrated the South, stole a passenger train in Georgia, and drove it north pursued by Southern conductors who eventually captured the raiders. According to Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, his reliable collaborator and gag man.
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The True History that Inspired Buster Keaton's "The General". January 18, 2016. by Christina Kimble. Some people have two great loves- their wife and their car; their husband and their spa days; their guitar and their friends. For character Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton), who plays a train engineer in the 1926 film The General, love was.
The general (1926) Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman Silent movie
He seems like a modern visitor to the world of the silent clowns. Consider an opening sequence in "The General" (1927), his masterpiece about a Southern railway engineer who has "only two loves in his life" -- his locomotive and the beautiful Annabelle Lee. Early in the film, Keaton, dressed in his Sunday best, walks to his girl's house.
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The General is not only one of Buster Keaton's most famous films, it was also one of his most ambitious. As star and co-director (with Clyde Bruckman) Keaton was given a then huge $400,000 budget to play with. But even this figure grew as production costs, and the problems involved in making such an ambitious film, mounted.
Buster Keaton in "The General" 1927 Silent film, Busters, Photo
Many critics consider THE GENERAL to be the last great comedy of the silent era, and it consistently ranks as one of the greatest comedies of all time on int.
Buster Keaton in The General. 1926. r/OldSchoolCool
The General (complete & clearer) (1926) A great Buster Keaton silent movie. In 1862, after spies steal his locomotive, "The General", he wages a one-man battle to recover it. The copies previously uploaded here were either incomplete or too blurry.
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Thu 23 Jan 2014 18.20 EST. T he pioneering genius of Buster Keaton's 1926 silent film The General - now on rerelease - looks even more startling than ever. With his athleticism, precision and.
The General Silent Comedy, Buster Keaton, Civil War Britannica
Buster Keaton's masterpiece and one of the greatest silent movies of all time was filmed in the Cottage Grove area in the summer of 1926. The General is a Civil War tale, the fictionalized account of an attempted hijacking of a Confederate train called the General by Union spies in 1862. Buster Keaton, who produced and directed the film, plays Johnnie Gray, the engineer of the General, whose.
Sam Hayes Buster Keaton in 'The General' (1926)
For all its humor, The General conveys the illusion of those photographs come alive. Keaton's best films function as a loving record of American town life, with its shops and picket fences and.
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Andrew Pulver recommends Buster Keaton's 1926 silent action-comedy film, The General. Set during the American civil war, Keaton plays the engineer of a steam locomotive stolen by Union troops, who.