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  • Title: General, The (1926) / The Playhouse / Cops
  • Summary: The General: When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive during the American civil war, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines.
  • Director: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline
  • Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavander, Richard Allen, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom, Joe Keaton, Mike Donlin, Tom Nawn / Virginia Fox / Eddie Cline, Joe Roberts
  • Year: 1926
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  • Format: DVD
  • Relation: Buster Keaton A Hard Act to Follow, Buster Keaton Rides Again, Buster Keaton From Silents to Shorts, The Railrodder
  • Language: Silent
  • Country: USA
  • Comments: Black & white with some tinted colour. Silent with music. The DVD also includes "The Playhouse" (Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline, 1921, 23 minutes) and "Cops" (Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline, 1922, 18 minutes). American Film Institute 100 American Films: #18 Cahiers du Cinema Best Film #18 British Film Institute Top 250 Films (2012): #34
  • Collection: Silent | War