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The General (1926)

Film · 1926 · 79 min · NR · Comedy · War · Romance

Buster drives "The General" to trainload of laughter.

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

Directed by Clyde Bruckman

Starring Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom, Frank Barnes, Charles Henry Smith, Joe Keaton

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In cinemas25 December 1926
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First release anywhere25 December 1926

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