Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Romance, War, Action
Release Year: 1927
Country: USA
Runtime: 75
Rating: 6.6 (0)
Languages: English, Spanish
Director: Clyde BruckmanBuster Keaton
Sound: Silent
Taglines:

Love, Locomotives and Laughs

Writing by: Al Boasberg - adaptation
Clyde Bruckman - writer
Buster Keaton - writer
William Pittenger - memoir The Great Locomotive Chase (uncredited)
Charles Henry Smith - adaptation (as Charles Smith)
Paul Girard Smith - writer (uncredited)

Produced by: Buster Keaton - producer
Joseph M. Schenck - executive producer
Joseph M. Schenck - producer

Cast: Marion Mack - Annabelle Lee
Glen Cavender - Union Capt. Anderson (chief spy)
Jim Farley - Gen. Thatcher (US Army)
Frederick Vroom - Confederate general
Charles Henry Smith - Mr. Lee (Annabelles father) (as Charles Smith)
Frank Barnes - Annabelles brother
Joe Keaton - Union general
Mike Donlin - Union general
Tom Nawn - Union general
Buster Keaton - Johnny Gray
Henry Baird - Soldier (uncredited)

Music: Carl Davis Joe Hisaishi Robert Israel
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Plot Outline: When Union spies steal an engineers beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines.
Plot: Johnnie loves his train ("The General") and Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War begins he is turned down for service because hes more valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks its because hes a coward. Union spies capture The General with Annabelle on board. Johnny must rescue both his loves.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The first episode of the second season begins with the usual credits, but instead of Father Ted, the title reads: Father Ben. It then cuts to Dougal sitting in front of the TV, watching Father Ben. Ted comes in and makes fun of the character of Father Ben, saying he has no self-awareness at all. It then cuts to the normal credits.

Goofs: We know about 7 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When the General is first stolen, Johnny is washing his hands; when he sees the train pulling away, he walks away from the sink with his hands covered in soap, but in the following reverse shot where he tells the passengers what has happened, his hands are clean.

Trivia: There are 15 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The final battle scene sparked a small forest fire around the river. Buster Keaton, his crew, and the extras stopped filming to fight the fire.
• Buster Keaton always said that this was his favorite movie.
• 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 (its in Kennesaw, Georgia now), but was unable to, and had to dress up another 4-4-0 locomotive instead.

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