The General (1927)
Screen Savour (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
d. Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton / USA / 75 mins. "It's got to be so authentic it hurts," Buster Keaton is to have said to his staff before they began production on The General , his late-era silent comedy about a powerful locomotive and its hapless conductor who manages to deliver a strategic victory in the throes of the U.S. Civil War. The authenticity abounds: the mise-en-scene...