The General DVD 1927 A Generális / Directed by Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman / Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack / Black&White old classic

UPC 5999881767728

REGION 2 PAL DVD - Black & White

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: Silent -

Subtitles: English, Hungarian

Total Runtime 75 minutes

English Summary:

The General is a 1926 American silent comedy film released by United Artists. It was inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War. The story was adapted from the memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger. The film stars Buster Keaton who co-directed it with Clyde Bruckman. 

Western & Atlantic Railroad train engineer Johnnie Gray is in Marietta, Georgia to see one of the two loves of his life, his fiancée Annabelle Lee — the other being his locomotive, The General—when the American Civil War breaks out. He hurries to be first in line to enlist in the Confederate Army, but is rejected because he is too valuable in his present job, but is not told that reason. On leaving, he runs into Annabelle's father and brother, who beckon to him to join them in line, but he walks away, giving them the impression that he does not want to enlist. Annabelle informs Johnnie that she will not speak to him again until he is in uniform.

A year passes and Annabelle receives word that her father has been wounded and travels north on the W&ARR to see him with The General pulling the train. When it makes a stop, the passengers detrain for a quick meal. As previously planned, Union spies led by Captain Anderson use the opportunity to steal the train. Anderson's objective is to burn all the railroad bridges he passes, thus preventing reinforcement and resupply of the Confederate army. Annabelle becomes an inadvertent prisoner of the raiders.

Hungarian Summary:

Cast / Szereplők:

• Buster Keaton as Johnnie Gray
• Marion Mack as Annabelle Lee
• Glen Cavender as Union Captain Anderson
• Jim Farley as General Thatcher
• Frederick Vroom as a Confederate General
• Charles Henry Smith as Annabelle's Father
• Frank Barnes as Annabelle's Brother
• Joe Keaton as a Union General
• Mike Donlin as a Union General
• Tom Nawn as a Union General