THE GENERAL

CLYDE BRUCKMAN, BUSTER KEATON | USA | 1926 | 78 MIN | NR | SILENT (ENGLISH INTERTITLES) 

Part of the Sight and Sound 100 series
BFI’s 2022 Sight & Sound List #99

The wildly gifted and daring Buster Keaton is at the wheel of this high-stakes period piece as an engineer on a quest to assist the Confederates by retrieving his locomotive intercepted by Union Spies.

Cast: Buster Keaton, Marian Mack, Glen Cavender

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