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The General is a 1926 American silent Western slapstick romantic action comedy film released by United Artists. It was inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War. The story was adapted from the 1889 memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.
Le Voyage dans la lune (1902) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Georges Méliès (Although Mark Cousins and the title on the screen indicate that the scene being shown is from La lune à un mètre, the scene is actually from Le Voyage dans la lune. The Hour of the Furnaces (1968) dir. Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas; Mulholland Dr. (2001) dir ...
The General, a Buster Keaton film; The General, a Russian war film; The General, a John Boorman drama about Dublin criminal Martin Cahill; The General, a British TV fly-on-the-wall documentary series about a hospital "The General" (The Prisoner), an episode of The Prisoner "The General", an episode of Spyforce
English: The General is a 1926 American silent film starring Buster Keaton. Français : Le Mécano de la « General » (1926), film américain réalisé par Buster Keaton et Clyde Bruckman . Il s'agit du premier film à être sélectionné par la bibliothèque du Congrès pour son « importance culturelle, historique ou esthétique » et à ...
Peacetime curtails the release of war movies, until the release of King Vidor's The Big Parade in 1925. Wings (1927) earns the first Academy Award for Best Picture . As movies transition to sound, Universal releases Lewis Milestone 's All Quiet on the Western Front , showing the German side of the conflict, becoming a powerful statement of war ...
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Whenever a TV show wanted to simulate silent-movie comedy, Keaton answered the call and guested in such successful series as The Ken Murray Show, You Asked for It, The Garry Moore Show, and The Ed Sullivan Show. Well into his fifties, Keaton successfully recreated his old routines, including one stunt in which he propped one foot onto a table ...
The largest number of on-set deaths in film history took place during the filming of this Indian made-for-TV movie. A total of 62 extras and crew members died after a fire broke out and they were trapped inside the burning film studio. Director and star Sanjay Khan suffered major burns and spent 13 months in hospital, undergoing 72 operations ...