The General (1926)
Buster drives "The General" to trainload of laughter.
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.
- Date of release
- 1926-12-25
- TMDB
- 7.9 / 10 (1474)
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Genres
- Comedy, War, Romance
- Director
- Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Casting
- Buster Keaton — Johnnie Gray
- Marion Mack — Annabelle Lee
- Glen Cavender — Captain Anderson
- Jim Farley — General Thatcher
- Frederick Vroom — A Southern General
- Frank Barnes — Annabelle's Brother
- Charles Henry Smith — Annabelle's Father
- Joe Keaton — Union General
- Mike Donlin — Union General
- Tom Nawn — Union General
- Henry Baird — Soldier (uncredited)
- Joe Bricher — Soldier (uncredited)
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