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The General is a 1926 American silent 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. The film stars Buster Keaton, who also co-directed it along with Clyde Bruckman.
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Civil War was the most traumatic event in the history of United States. With many of its participants still living, it isn’t surprising that such conflict served as a subject for some of classic titles of American cinema in its first decades, like *The Birth of a Nation* or *Gone with the Wind*. While those two films were epics, the third classic covering the same subject, *The General*, 1926 film directed by Clyde…More
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What would you do to a person that burglarised your home and took some of your treasured possessions? Famed British film maker John Boorman gave an unusual and quite interesting answer to that question. In 1998 said individual became the subject of his biopic *The General*. The main character, played by Brendan Gleeson, is Martin “The General” Cahill, professional criminal specialised in burglaries and armed robberi…More
Fotograma de la película Mi conocimiento sobre la era del cine previa a la sincronización de imagen y sonido no es muy abundante. Apenas he visto algunos trabajos de los hermanos Lumière y varios clásicos de Charlie Chaplin (también vi el homenaje que rinde _The Artist_ a esa era, pero no creo que cuente), así que cuando, mientras ojeaba el libro _100 películas más importantes de la historia_, me topé con esta cinta…More