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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.
Joey Marion McCreery Lewyn (April 8, 1902 – May 1, 1989), known professionally as Marion Mack, was an American film actress and screenwriter. Mack is best known for co-starring with Buster Keaton in the 1926 silent comedy film The General. After retiring from acting in 1928, she wrote several short screenplays and took up a career in real estate.
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 ...
Title Director Featured Cast Genre Note Bachelor Brides: William K. Howard: Rod La Rocque, Eulalie Jensen: Romantic comedy: PDC [1]: Bad Man's Bluff: Alan James: Jay Wilsey, Molly Malone
December 5 – The 1925 Soviet film Battleship Potemkin premieres in the United States, at the Biltmore Theatre in Manhattan. [8] Theodore W. Case and E. I. Sponable demonstrate their sound-on-film experiments to William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation. The Fox-Case Corp. is formed in an effort to exploit the system, which is given the name ...
The General is a 1926 American silent 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 .
Silent (English intertitles) Tin Hats is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Edward Sedgwick (his first for MGM ), starring Claire Windsor and Conrad Nagel . [ 1 ] The film is considered partially lost.
1896 – L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, one of the six more short films released by the Lumière brothers; Pathé-Frères is founded; Le Manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle) is a French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès which depicts a pantomimed sketch in the style of a theatrical comic fantasy.