Project Author: David Mills
June 23, 2025
PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
Joseph M. Schenck Productions, Buster Keaton Productions
The General
Buster drives "The General" to trainload of laughter.
Genre:
Action, Adventure, Comedy, War
Runtime:
79
Released:
1926
Rating:
7.937
Budget:
Box Office:
WRITERS
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, Al Boasberg, William Pittenger, Charles Henry Smith
FILM OVERVIEW
The General
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray’s beloved locomotive, ‘The General’—with Johnnie’s lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
DIRECTOR
Clyde Bruckman
GALLERY
PRODUCTION TEAM
Buster Keaton (Producer)
Devereaux Jennings (Director of Photography)
Joseph M. Schenck (Producer)
Bert Haines (Director of Photography)
Buster Keaton (Screenplay)
Clyde Bruckman (Director)
Buster Keaton (Director)
Harry Roselotte (Set Decoration)
Buster Keaton (Editor)
Clyde Bruckman (Screenplay)
CAST MEMBERS
Buster Keaton
Marion Mack
Glen Cavender
Jim Farley
Frederick Vroom
Frank Barnes
Charles Henry Smith
Joe Keaton
Mike Donlin
Tom Nawn
MORE PRODUCTION
Sherman Kell (Editor), Fred Gabourie (Art Direction), Byron Houck (Camera Operator), Frank Barnes (Grip), Fred Carlton Ryle (Makeup Artist), Dal Clawson (Still Photographer), Fred Gabourie (Production Manager), Frank Barnes (Construction Foreman), Earl Mohan (Stunts), Buster Keaton (Stunts), Harry J. Wild (First Assistant Camera), Edward Hearn (Assistant Director), Glen Cavender (Second Unit), Elmer Ellsworth (Camera Operator), Harry Brand (Production Coordinator), Al Boasberg (Adaptation), William Pittenger (Book), Charles Henry Smith (Adaptation)
MORE CAST
Henry Baird, Joe Bricher, Jimmy Bryant, Sergeant Bukowski, C.C. Cruson, Jack Dempster, Keith Fennell, Budd Fine, Eddie Foster, Ronald Gilstrap, Frank Hagney, Ray Hanford, Jack Hanlon, Al Hanson, Anthony Harvey, Edward Hearn, Hilliard Karr, Elgin Lessley, Louis Lewyn, Jackie Lowe, Billy Lynn, Ross McCutcheon, Tom Moran, Charles Phillips, Red Rial, Al St. John, Harold Terry, Ray Thomas, Red Thompson, James Walsh, Kenneth Hawley Ward, John Wilson, Jean Woodward
