Silent film with musical score; English intertitles. Videocassette release of three silent motion pictures originally produced 1921, 1922 and 1926. Produced for video by David Shepard, Film Preservation Associates. Digitally mastered from archive prints featuring an original musical score. The General / Joseph M. Schenck [producer] ; written and directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman ; adapted by Al Boasberg and Charles Smith from William Pittenger's The great locomotive chase. Starring Buster Keaton, Marion Mack. The General is a locomotive beloved by its engineer, who sets out to win the Civil War singlehandedly. 1926 (75 min.). The playhouse / Joseph M. Schenck [producer] ; written and directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline. Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox. A comedy in which Keaton plays a stage manager, an actor, a monkey and other parts; includes the "dream" sequence. 1921 (23 min.). Cops / Comique Film Co. ; Joseph M. Schenck, [producer] ; written and directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline. Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox. A comedy of error and circumstance in which Buster Keaton attempts to win his sweetheart's hand in marriage by becoming a successful businessman. His exploits climax in a chase with an entire police precinct. 1922 (18 min.).
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