The general : & Steamboat Bill Jr.
The general : & Steamboat Bill Jr.
-- The General
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The General (1926) (75 min): Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee, young Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton) sets out to single-handedly win the war when Union spies steal his cherished locomotive The General. In doing so Keaton faces hijackers, an errant cannon, and finishes the film with the most expensive scene in silent cinema with an actual locomotive plunging into a river. Exact in almost every detail The General has been called a living Matthew Brady photograph and was one of first films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928): Follows the adventures of a spoiled young man forced by his father to learn the ropes of riverboating. The film features Keaton's most dangerous stunt during the cyclone sequence and was Keaton's last film as an independent director and actor.
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