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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 ...
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 ...
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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 "The General" (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
The General (1926). During filming of the epic comedy in Oregon, there were a number of incidents. Several National Guardsmen, employed as extras for the Civil War battle scenes, were injured by mishaps caused by misfired muskets or explosions. Director and star Buster Keaton was knocked unconscious when he stood too close to a cannon firing.
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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 ...