Movie
The General
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1926-12-25
- Runtime
- 79 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Comedy, War, Romance, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Joseph M. Schenck Productions, Buster Keaton Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Buster Keaton as Johnnie Gray
- Marion Mack as Annabelle Lee
- Glen Cavender as Captain Anderson
- Jim Farley as General Thatcher
- Frederick Vroom as A Southern General
- Frank Barnes as Annabelle's Brother
- Charles Henry Smith as Annabelle's Father
- Joe Keaton as Union General
- Mike Donlin as Union General
- Tom Nawn as Union General
- Henry Baird as Soldier (uncredited)
- Joe Bricher as Soldier (uncredited)
Crew
- Clyde Bruckman - Director
- Buster Keaton - Director
- Buster Keaton - Screenplay
- Clyde Bruckman - Screenplay
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