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The General
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.
7.9
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1,408 votes
“Buster drives "The General" to trainload of laughter.”
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The General 1927 Movie Trailer
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- Dec 25, 1926
- 1h 19m
- No Language
- Clyde Bruckman
- Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, Al Boasberg
- Released
- $750.0K
- $1.0M
Joseph M. Schenck ProductionsBuster Keaton Productions
