Directed by Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman • Comedy • 1925 • US • Silent with English intertitles
Starring Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender

Buster Keaton’s “The General” is not simply one of the greatest silent comedies ever made, it is one of the greatest films of any era. In restaging the true story of one man’s journey behind enemy lines to reclaim his captured locomotive during the Civil War, Keaton stages a series of complex chases, using lumbering trains as comedic props, making “The General” a truly breath-taking experience.