The General

A man fights to save his beloved locomotive and his love interest during the Civil War. The General is a 1926 American english-language Action Adventure movie featuring Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom, Charles Henry Smith and Jean Woodward. The movie is based on The Great Locomotive Chase 1863 memoir Union soldier by William Pittenger. Buster Keaton Productions in association with Joseph M. Schenck Productions. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Joseph Schenck and Buster Keaton. The movie is directed by Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton. United Artists acquired the distribution rights for the movie. The General was released on 2nd January 1927 and takes a screen time of 75 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. The General was made on a budget of $0 million and at the box office it grossed only $0 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Al Boasberg, Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton, Charles Henry Smith and Paul Gerard Smith. Cinematography was done by Bert Haines and Devereaux Jennings and editing by Buster Keaton and Sherman Kell. The music was composed by William P. Perry along with Carl Davis, Robert Israel, Baudime Jam, Joe Hisaishi, Timothy Brock and Angelin Fonda.