The General (1927)

Recommended
USA
Feature Film

Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Writers: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton, Al Boasberg, Charles Henry Smith, William Pittenger
Cinematographers: Bert Haines, Dev Jennings
Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack

Keaton’s most renowned film a non-stop, action-packed civil war pic, following a young Confederate train driver’s attempts to rescue the two loves of his life, his beloved engine and his potential fiancée, after they have been kidnapped by Yankee spies although often spectacular and generally very funny and entertaining, lacks the heart and humanity of his best work, and feels somewhat soulless in comparison. Iain.Stott