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The General (1927) (2324 words) |
 | The General (1927) is an imaginative masterpiece of dead-pan "Stone-Face" Buster Keaton comedy, generally regarded as one of the greatest of all silent comedies (and Keaton's own favorite) - and undoubtedly the best train film ever made. |
| His stoic, unflappable reactions to fateful calamities, his ingenious and resourceful uses of machines and various objects (water tanks, a large piece of timber, a cowcatcher, a rolling artillery cannon on wheels, and unattached railroad cars), and the unpredictable forces of Nature, provide much of the plot. |
| General Thatcher: Then the day you steal the train I will have General Parker advance to meet you. |
| The General Died at Dawn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (130 words) |
| The General Died at Dawn is a 1936 film which tells the story of a mercenary who meets a beautiful girl while trying to keep arms from getting to a vicious warlord in war-torn China. |
| The movie was written by Charles G. Booth and Clifford Odets, and directed by Lewis Milestone. |
| In 1938 a spoof version, called The Major Lied Till Dawn, was produced. |
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