a spotless new transfer of Buster Keaton’s 1926 epic, The General. Kino initially released a DVD of The General in 1999, which looks like every other version I’ve seen in theaters or at home ...

Buster, as Johnnie Grey, is the General’s engineer ... requiring that his next feature be decidedly less extravagant. Keaton dutifully followed up with College (1927), one of his most restrained ...

The General is far from fussy ... The story is a burlesque of a Civil War meller. Buster Keaton has the role of a youthful engineer on the Watern and Atlantic RR, running through Georgia, when ...

Buster Keaton, of the stony ... 6 p.m. March 28; 8 p.m. March 29. – The General (1927). ((star) (star) (star) (star) ) The greatest chase comedy ever made; perhaps the greatest silent comedy.

Given how poor some relatively new films can look on disc, it's quite incredible to see the quality of "The General" on DVD. This classic Buster Keaton silent ... a film from 1927 there are ...

You can’t really start a conversation about Hollywood stunts and leading men, however, without the topic eventually turning toward the legendary Buster ... toward The General as Keaton’s ...

Apparently, the quartermaster general had never anticipated that anyone under five feet would be allowed to join the United States Army." Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was born in Piqua ...