Showtimes for The General
Part of: Silent Sundays
Live Score by Dreamland Faces
Silent comedies don’t get any more legendary than Buster Keaton’s 1926 classic. He plays train engineer Johnnie Gray, who gets mixed up (along with his beloved locomotive, named the General) in an espionage plot during the Civil War. This may be Keaton’s finest hour as both a comedian and a filmmaker: the elaborate sight gags, breathtaking stunts, captivating story, and epic scale combine to create a timeless masterpiece of the silent era. If you haven’t seen THE GENERAL on the big screen, you haven’t really seen it!
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.
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Buster Keaton
1926
79 min
Action Comedy
