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List Price: $24.99 Our Price: $22.99 You Save: $2 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • Silent • NTSC In Theaters : 05 February, 1927 DVD Release : 26 October, 1999 |
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The General description Buster Keaton's career reached its creative apex with this rousing comic adventure. Not merely one of the finest silent films, this remains one of the great film comedies of all time. The Great Stone Face stars as Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray, a man with only two loves: the sweet Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack) and his trustworthy engine, the eponymous General. When Fort Sumner is fired upon he's one of the first to enlist, but when the war office rejects him (he's too valuable as a trained engineer) his sweetie rejects him as a coward. Johnny has the opportunity to prove his bravery when Yankee spies steal his engine and inadvertently kidnap Annabelle, and Johnny pursues with all the resources at his disposal: handcar, bicycle, and finally railroad engine. Keaton's love/hate relationship with technology and machinery shines as he becomes one with his beloved locomotive and wrestles with a finicky cannon that threatens to blow his engine off the tracks; with tremendous dexterity, he nails the humor with inimitably deadpan takes. Spunky Marion Mack makes a perfect partner for Keaton, not merely a foil but a gifted comedienne in her own right. Other Keaton films contain more laughs and inspired comic stunts, but none combines romance, adventure, and comedy into a solid story as seamlessly as this silent masterpiece. --Sean Axmaker |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | The video features the BEST SOUNDTRACK FOR THIS FILM. |
| When will someone release the Thames Television version of this film on DVD? It has an outstanding score by Carl Davis that really helps the movie. All other prints of this film either have soporific 'film music' or completely inappropriate tracks. Davis is the only composer who seems to know that silent film music is supposed to support the action and work with the visual rhythms of the film.The GENERAL is a brilliant movie that works even better with the right track. While this is true of all silents, it's particularly crucial for this film. |
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