Buster drives "The General" to trainload of laughter.
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.
$750,000
$1,000,000
December 25, 1926
Joseph M. Schenck Productions, Buster Keaton Productions
43 people
Buster Keaton
Johnnie Gray
Directing
Marion Mack
Annabelle Lee
Acting
Glen Cavender
Captain Anderson
Acting
Jim Farley
General Thatcher
Acting
Frederick Vroom
A Southern General
Acting
Frank Barnes
Annabelle's Brother
Camera
Charles Henry Smith
Annabelle's Father
Writing
Joe Keaton
Union General
Acting
Mike Donlin
Union General
Acting
Tom Nawn
Union General
Acting
Henry Baird
Soldier (uncredited)
Acting
Joe Bricher
Soldier (uncredited)
Acting
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