The General

The General

Buster drives "The General" to trainload of laughter.

192679 min7.9 / 10

A virtuosic silent comedy built on physical ingenuity and romantic earnestness, where a man's devotion to his locomotive and his lady drives an escalating series of ingenious, death-defying stunts.

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

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