NEW GENERAL (1927) (DVD)

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• Release Year: 1927
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, War
• Plot: Consistently ranked among the best films ever made, Keaton's The General (1926) is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing. ; ; Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit, and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), young Johnny Gray (Keaton) is given a chance to redeem himself when Yankee spies steal his cherished locomotive. Johnny wages a one-man war against hijackers, an errant cannon and the unpredictable hand of fate while roaring along the iron rails. 'Every shot has the authenticity and the unassuming correct composition of a Matthew Brady Civil War photograph', wrote film historian David Robinson, 'No one - not even Griffith or Huston and certainly no Fleming (Gone With the Wind) - caught the visual aspect of the Civil War as Keaton did'. ; ; In The Playhouse (1921), a technical tour-de-force in which Keaton plays every member of a stage company, the entire audience and an undisciplined chimp to boot! Cops (1922) is the quintessential chase film, with Buster tumbling into a series of marvelous mishaps while fleeing hundreds of uniformed policemen. Digitally mastered from archival prints, with original musical scores. ;
• Cast: Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom, Charles Henry Smith, Frank Barnes, Joe Keaton, Mike Donlin, Tom Nawn, Buster Keaton, Henry Baird, Joe Bricher, Jimmy Bryant, Sergeant Bukowski, Capt. C.C. Cruson, Jack Dempster, Keith Fennell, Budd Fine, Eddie Foster, Ronald Gilstrap, Frank Hagney, Ray Hanford, Jackie Hanlon, Al Hanson, Anthony Harvey, Edward Hearn, Hilliard Karr, Elgin Lessley, Louis Lewyn, Jackie Lowe, Billy Lynn, Ross McCutcheon, Tom Moran, Charles Phillips, Red Rial, Harold Terry, Ray Thomas, Red Thompson, James Walsh, John Wilson, Jean Woodward, Clyde Bruckman
• Director: Buster Keaton
• Runtime: 1:15
• Company: Alpha Video
• Media Format: Movie