The General (1926)
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, Al Boasberg, Charles Smith
ComedySilent
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About
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find.
One of the most acclaimed silent films to this day, The General is known as Buster Keaton's finest film. Based on the memoirs of a union soldier, this film follows a engineer as he fights to save his train. With dangerous stunts, a cute romance, and a likeable lead, The General is now thought of as a masterpiece. This wasn't always the case, however. On release reviews were poor and the box office barely recouped its investment, leading to Buster Keaton losing independence as a filmmaker.
Human-made No record of this work says a model made it. What this means.
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in Comedy films
- Licence or status
- Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.
- Credit
- Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, Al Boasberg, Charles Smith
- Language
- English
- Who can watch
- The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed
