DOG ASIDE Orson Welles stated that Keaton's The General is "the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made" A 12 worldwide poll by Sight & Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 34th greatest film and the top comedy The magazine's 02 poll ranked it #15 and the highestrated comedy The General follows Confederate railroad engineer Johnnie Gray (Keaton) as he defends his town of Marietta, Georgia from some nefarious Union soldiers Like most of the films which Keaton directed and starred in, the plot is minimal and often remembered only as an incidental setup for Keaton's incredible array of sight gags and stuntsThe General In September of 1925, one of Buster Keaton's head gag writers, Clyde Bruckman, was doing some research on the Civil War when he found a reprint of Pittenger's book (which was retitled The Great Locomotive Chase in 13) He instantly thought the story would be perfect for Keaton, who was an avid history buff
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Buster keaton the general train scene-Buster Keaton Highest Rated 100% The Three Ages (1923) Lowest Rated 33% Pajama Party (1964) Birthday Birthplace Piqua, Kansas, USA Renowned for Buster Keaton The General • International Buster Keaton Society Derek Malcolm Thu 0522 EST I remember once acting, as the Clown in
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Buster Keaton, Joseph M Schenck Complete version (other version on archiveorg is missing 1st 4 minutes) Union solders have stolen The General, a Confederate train manned by Johnnie Gray, who was unable to enlist in the Confederate army because he isThe General Buster Keaton wanted to use the real locomotive The General in the movie which was at the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Depot in Chattanooga, Tennessee (it's in Kennesaw, Georgia now), but was unable to, and had to dress up another 440 locomotive instead Keaton performed many dangerous physical stunts on and around the moving train, including jumping"THE GENERAL" (1926 with Buster Keaton) is an American Classic Silent Film period This review is to ALL MOVIE LOVERS young & old I know silent films can be very taxing with Organ music sound track, flickering picture, washed out images and reading of the frequent dialogue cards flashing up on the screen every few minutes to keep you on the plot path
The General Directed by Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton With Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must singlehandedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines Made in 1926, The General recouped little more than half of its budget of threequarters of a million dollars, much of it spent on the spectacular train wreck near theThe General (1927) The General (1927) is an imaginative masterpiece of deadpan "StoneFace" Buster Keaton comedy, generally regarded as one of the greatest of all silent comedies (and Keaton's own favorite) and undoubtedly the best train film ever made The Civil War adventureepic classic was made toward the end of the silent era
3 3 T he pioneering genius of Buster Keaton's 1926 silent film The General – now on rerelease – looks even more startling than ever With his The General Buster Keaton Discussion in 'Bad Dog Cafe' started by HotRodSteve, #1 HotRodSteve Poster Extraordinaire Posts 6,412 Joined Location The Shmudson Valley RoscoeElegante, SnidelyWhiplash, telleutelleme and 13 others like this #2 Buster Keaton in "The General" The last time you saw a silent film from 1927, I bet you were kicking yourself for not choosing The General instead Not that there wasn't a fine roster of films in the year 1927 , but Buster Keaton's labor of love, The General , consistently ranks up there with one of the best films ever made
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A complete and remastered version of this movie was released on BluRay by Kino International in 09 It featured scores by Carl Davis, Robert Israel and Lee The General (complete & clearer) (1926) A great Buster Keaton silent movie In 1862, after spies steal his locomotive, "The General", he wages a oneman battle to recover it The copies previously uploaded here were either incomplete or too blurryBuster Keaton, I'm convinced, is a master at setting up comedic gags, and The General showcases what he can do with a large budget (making it even more of a shame that this flopped hard enough that he was here on out kept on a creative leash) when he applies his craft to impossibly largescale setpieces The basic premise of the film is as follows a Confederate soldier rides a train into
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How Buster Keaton Filmed The General Posted on by John Bengtson Click to enlarge Buster and crew stayed at the Bartell Hotel (1), steps from the Union Camp set (2) built north of the tracks and filmed looking north, (3) the halfmile length of parallel train tracks (dotted line) used for all of the tracking shots, all filmed looking south, (4) the openConsistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton s THE GENERAL is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing This Kino Ultimate 2 Disc Edition was mastered in HD from a 35mm archive print struck from the original camera negative Buster Keaton hiding under table as group of men plan in a scene from the film 'The General', 1926 Getty "In order to liberate the South from Northern 'misinterpretations,' in American history, many exConfederates urgently sought to illuminate the positive aspects of their lost dreams and ambitions," he writes
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(Gary Giddins and Matthew Dessem, "Buster Keaton's The General," Slate, ) Roger Ebert hailed The General as "an epic of silent comedy" with "ingenious" stunts and gags (Roger Ebert, "The General Movie Review & Film Summary (1927)") It's true that the train chases and clever fixes Keaton comes up with to battle his adversaries and their Johnnie (Buster Keaton) dressed in a Confederate uniform flags down a Confederate troop By the time Buster Keaton made The General (codirected by Clyde Bruckman) in 1926, Civil War melodramas were already oldfashioned In the early silent era, the Civil War and the Antebellum South provided fodder for countless narrative films by US studios, so that byThe General No silent moviemaker ever engaged with the machinery of modern life as resourcefully as Buster Keaton did From One Week (19), his debut as a solo director after his apprenticeship with Fatty Arbuckle, to The Cameraman (1928), his final masterpiece, Keaton routinely sparred with the mechanized world
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Before Buster Keaton ever stepped foot on a stage, his days were full of calamities and dramas — not necessarily of the comedic variety According to Marion Meade's "Buster Keaton Cut to the Chase A Biography," Keaton spent the first couple of years of his life sleeping in a suitcase, and sometimes in tentsHis mother, Myra, once placed him in a costume trunkThe General, American silent comedy film, released in 1927, starring and directed by comedian Buster Keaton, and cited by many film historians as one of the greatest American movies It is set during the American Civil War (1861–65) and highlights the theme of personal redemptionSynopsis The Western & Atlantic Flyer "speeds into Marietta, Georgia in the Spring of 1861," pulled by the locomotive "General" The engineer, Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton) gets down to oil around, and is observed by two admiring boys He has two loves his engine and his girl
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Buster Keaton's masterpiece and one of the greatest silent movies of all time was filmed in the Cottage Grove area in the summer of 1926 The General is a Civil War tale, the fictionalized account of an attempted hijacking of a Confederate train called the General by Union spies in 1862Buster Keaton, who produced and directed the film, plays Johnnie Gray, the engineer of the General,Buster Keaton art print, The General movie poster, Silent film, The Stenberg Brothers, Soviet, Russian, Graphic design, Constructivism StardustPrintShop 5 out of 5 stars (3,631) $1685 Add to Favorites Soviet Constructivist posters / Old film poster / "The General" Buster Keaton / When word got out that Keaton was making a comedy of Pittinger's story, he was refused permission to use the General, which had survived and would later—partly because of Keaton's film—be
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The General Buster Keaton was not the Great Stone Face so much as a man who kept his composure in the center of chaos Other silent actors might mug to get a point across, but Keaton remained observant and collected That's one reason his best movies have aged better than those of his rival, Charlie ChaplinThe General is a curious beast, though, a hybrid action movie, comedy, war film and historical adventure At times it feels strongly as if Buster Keaton wanted to make an American Civil War epic, but no one would fund it without him turning it into a comedyDirected by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman Release Date Length 8 Reels (7500 feet) Plot Summary Coming Soon Starring Buster Keaton Johnnie Gray Marion Mack Annabelle Lee Charles Henry Smith Her Father Frank Barnes Her Brother Frank Agney Recruiter Frederick Vroom A Southern General Glen Cavender Captain Anderson
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While looking through negatives completely unseen for over 90 years, Justin Reeves discovered a collection of candid photographs from the set of Buster Keaton's The General What is most remarkable is that he found a photo of Buster lining up a shot with his crew To have found such a detailed collection of candid photos of a silent film in production is rare enough, but to have an The General, starring and codirected by Buster Keaton, represented one of the peaks of the silent era in movies and one so elevated that its appeal has lingered well into the 21st century There is precious little information about the score presented here, in terms of its degree of authenticity in relation to any sheet music sent out with Based on a totally true story during the Civil War, Buster Keaton plays Johnnie Gray, a talented train engineer from the South He has two loves of his life – his girlfriend, Annabelle, and his engine Since this is set in the 1860s, Johnnie must court Annabelle instead of swiping right Annabelle's father and brother catch wind that a war
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The General is Buster Keaton's most memorable work It utilised some incredible stunts and good comical tricks, but I find it rather distasteful to make a comedy about the civil war Sylvester K Buster Keaton's Last Stand Production for The General involved guns, bombs, fires, and the blowing up of a bridge in a tiny Oregon town When the filming was over, the comedic legend's career was in tatters Forty years later, the movie was hailed as a Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern railroad engineer who loves his train engine, The General, almost as much as he loves Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack) When the opening shots of the Civil War are fired at Fort Sumter, Johnny tries to enlist and he is deemed too useful as an engineer to be a soldier
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As shown in this previous post describing how Buster Keaton filmed The General in Cottage Grove, Oregon, Buster and crew stayed at the Bartell Hotel during the production, staged the summer of 1926 The hotel stands just a block or two west from where most the filming took place But the hotel, later renamed the Cottage Grove Hotel, has another claim to classicBuster Keaton's The General STUDY Flashcards Learn Write Spell Test PLAY Match Gravity Created by SonyaHopkins Terms in this set (9) Who stared in the General Buster Keaton Who co stared in the general Marion Mack What year was the general 1927 Who directed the general Clyde Bruckman Buster KeatonBuster Keaton Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton ( – ) was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone
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