The general [DVD videorecording] / Joseph M. Schenck presents a United Artists production ; written and directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman ; adapted by Al Boasberg and Charles Smith.
Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Charles Smith, Frank Barnes. Adapted from The Great locomotive chase by William Pittenger. Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1926. Special features include two short motion pictures, The Playhouse (23 min.) and Cops (18 min.), starring Buster Keaton and Virginia Fox.
Summary:
Rejected by the Confederate Army as unfit and taken for a coward by his beloved, an engineer sets out to win the Civil War single handedly with the help of his cherished locomotive. The film simltaneously comic and historically accurate in its details.
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