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	Internet Archive: Details: The General
		But Keaton had understatement, and Keaton had a keen, almost prophetic sense in knowing that his jokes would still be funny 80 years later.
		Buster Keaton plays Johnnie Gray, an engineer on the Western and Atlantic Railroad (whose train is called The General).
		The fact is, this is Keaton's funniest, this is the silents' funniest, and as far as I'm concerned, it's darn close to all of cinema's funniest.
	www.archive.org /details/TheGeneral (1311 words)

	Wittgenstein and Buster Keaton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Joseph Francis "Buster" Keaton was bom in 1895 in Piqua, Kansas.
		Buster Keaton (without any philosophical intentions) transformed this story into a film in which the world appears as if it were constructed according to the ontology of Wittgenstein's Tractatus.
		When Keaton calls on his fiancee, he stands in front of the door in the expectation that it will be opened by her-after he is done with sickening his hair, brushing his jacket, etc. But all the while his fiancee is already standing behind him on the porch, observing his discreet preparations.
	faculty.frostburg.edu /phil/forum/Keaton.htm (4894 words)

	The General
		Buster Keaton's masterpiece, THE GENERAL, was first shown to an audience at a special evening preview on October 22, 1926 at the California Theatre in San Jose.
		Keaton's film is based on an actual event in the Civil War--the theft of a Confederate locomotive by Union raiders and the resulting pursuit involving the comic hero.
		Although Keaton's hero is a Confederate partisan, the film is not concerned with the politics of the 1860s and it has managed to escape the clouds of controversy that seem to arise over all things Southern.
	www.gildasattic.com /buster.html (574 words)

	Cinephobia Review: The General (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Keaton plays a railway engineer in the south during the American Civil War: when northern spies steal a steam engine, kidnap his true love, and flee to the north, he gives pursuit.
		Keaton is also very astute in the way he uses the foreground and background space of his shots to play off each other.
		Keaton’s staging of this moment is both a gag (drawing a counterpoint between his blissful ignorance in the foreground, and the situation unfolding behind) and an extremely neat and effective bit of exposition.
	home.mira.net /~satadaca/general.htm (852 words)

	Buster Keaton
		Keaton earned his nickname at an early age, when the 6-month-old tot tumbled unharmed down a flight of stairs at a boardinghouse for vaudeville entertainers.
		Keaton excelled at physical, acrobatic stunts, and he was also a pioneer in the use of multiple-exposure visual effects, dream sequences and other photography tricks.
		By the early 1930s, Keaton's physical health was deteriorating, in part because of the many injuries he received during his performances, as was his mental health, due to battles with alcohol and a second failed marriage.
	www.cemeteryguide.com /keaton.html (607 words)

	The General (1927)
		The General (1927) is an imaginative masterpiece of dead-pan "Stone-Face" Buster Keaton comedy, generally regarded as one of the greatest of all silent comedies (and Keaton's own favorite) - and undoubtedly the best train film ever made.
		Filled with hilarious sight gags and perfectly timed stunt work, the chase comedy was written and directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, and filmed with a huge budget for its time ($750,000 supplied by Metro chief Joseph Schenck).
		His stoic, unflappable reactions to fateful calamities, his ingenious and resourceful uses of machines and various objects (water tanks, a large piece of timber, a cowcatcher, a rolling artillery cannon on wheels, and unattached railroad cars), and the unpredictable forces of Nature, provide much of the plot.
	www.filmsite.org /gene.html (2383 words)

	Buster Keaton's The General: The comedy classic is 80 years old
		Like the civil war soldiers in his epic The General, Buster Keaton fans are divided into to camps: those who feel that the aforementioned film is his masterpiece, and those who assign that designation to his shorter, more inventive works, namely, the two juniors, Steamboat Bill and Sherlock.
		Keaton plays Johnie Gray, the simple Southern bumpkin with two loves in his life: the girl above his station, and his prize steamer, The General.
		Most are the result of Keaton's inexhaustible use of his facial - sometimes bodily - immobility; the way he just sits or stands there in situations that call for great physical flailing or over the top emotion.
	classicfilms.suite101.com /article.cfm/buster_keatons_the_general (395 words)

	Buster Keaton
		Buster Keaton and an all-star cast of old-time comedians star in this adaptation of "The Drunkard" which was popularized by W.C. Fields in his classic comedy "The Old Fashioned Way".
		Buster is blamed and thousands of police chase him throughout the city in a wild series of gags and fun.
		Buster takes a swipe at every bullying bunch on in-laws who treat the new groom as if he were the worst addition to a family they ever saw.
	www.a-1video.com /buster.htm (1935 words)

	DVD.net : The General (Buster Keaton) - DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Buster Keaton is a railroad engineer in charge of a small but beautiful engine, The General.
		Keaton was denied the use of the real General to tell this tale, and trekked out to Oregon, where old locomotives and narrow tracks still existed.
		A 1922 18 minute short featuring Buster Keaton with some good chases and stunts, although the effect is blunted somewhat by the same key scenes being seen in other extra features on this disc.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=5324 (1523 words)

	The General
		Buster Keaton was a child vaudeville star in his family's rough-house comedy act.
		Keaton and Arbuckle made 15 short comedies between 1917 and 1920; Keaton increasingly shared the director's chores with Arbuckle.
		Keaton thought the story was brilliant, but that the hero had to be from the South, "You can always make villains out of the Northerners, but you cannot make a villain out of the South," he explained.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDGeneral.htm (665 words)

	The Art of Buster Keaton DVD Box Set DVD - Kino on Video
		Buster is a pampered youth who, on his first visit to the stock exchange, thwarts the villain and saves his family's fortune.
		Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's The General is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing.
		Buster is caught between two feuding riverboat owners and a brewing hurricane.
	www.kino.com /video/item.php?product_id=597 (458 words)

	American Masters . Buster Keaton \| PBS
		By the age of three, Keaton joined the family's vaudeville act, which was renamed The Three Keatons.
		For Keaton, as for many of the silent movie stars, the final straw was the advent of the talkies.
		The sheer ability of his acrobatics astounded audiences who had become used to less sophisticated physical comedy, and by the 1960s, his films were returning to the theaters and he was being hailed as the greatest actor of the silent era.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/keaton_b.html (893 words)

	The General - Rotten Tomatoes
		The two things engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) loves most in the world are his Southern belle sweetheart and his locomotive.
		Keaton is a wonderful treasure no matter the movie, and The General is certainly among his best.
		Buster Keaton's The General is a work of genius.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1008166-general (552 words)

	The General (1927) Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Charles Smith - Three Movie Buffs Review
		Keaton was a genius and a perfectionist at setting up these scenes and stunts.
		Buster Keaton's physical antics can be funny at times, but really I see him more as a stuntman/acrobat, than an actor.
		The one image that sticks with me most of all is the famous shot of Keaton sitting on the drive-rod of his train, which begins to move while he remains sitting on it.
	www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=general (1019 words)

	The General
		The General and her sister locomotive The Texas were born in December, 1855 and January 1856, respectively, in the city of Paterson, New Jersey.
		On April 12, 1862, 21 men stole The General from Big Shanty and ran her to Ringgold, Georgia, where she slowed to a stop some two miles north of the depot.
		After her appearance at the dedication, the General retired to a siding in Vinings, where the old locomotive languished for a year when a photographer "discovered" the old lady and convinced the president of the NC&StL to refurbish her and send the locomotive to the Chicago Exposition.
	ngeorgia.com /people/thegeneral.html (1249 words)

	The General (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Buster Keaton’s brand of comedy seems as if it will remain one of the truly timeless things that this medium called movies has managed to produced.
		Set during the American Civil War and loosely based on an actual incident, the film follows Keaton, who plays a Confederate railroad engineer that has a chip on his shoulder since he wasn’t allowed to fight as a solider.
		Things are generally more amusing than flat-out funny, but it’s consistently that way, so it never feels as if the gags are misfiring.
	www.geocities.com /nyfilmfest/1927/general.htm (458 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The General [1927]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Buster Keaton's career reached its creative apex with this rousing comic adventure.
		Keaton's love/hate relationship with technology and machinery shines as he becomes one with his beloved locomotive and wrestles with a finicky cannon that threatens to blow his engine off the tracks; with tremendous dexterity, he nails the humour with inimitably deadpan takes.
		Buster Keaton was a film maker years ahead of his time, this film proves it.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CIF3 (1015 words)

	Keaton's Films
		Keaton constantly tries to sneak over the barrier to the girl, only to be thwarted by her father.
		Keaton is also on the receiving end of some physical abuse from his father as the two recreate routines from their vaudeville act.
		Keaton attends to his duties, swabbing the deck, dusting the cabin, and carefully poring coffee, and narrowly escapes the first steward's fate.
	www.busterkeaton.com /synopses.htm (12555 words)

	Media Nugget : The General : Buster Keaton
		The General is not only one of the greatest films of the silent era, but one of the funniest movies ever made.
		Keaton's masterful physical comedy brings to life a simple Civil War story about a young man, his girl, and his train.
		And then there are the gags: whether he's struggling to fire a cannon from one moving train to another, or simply sitting atop the turning wheels of a locomotive, Keaton's sense of what was funny (and what was human) never failed.
	www.medianugget.com /2001/12/the_general.html (143 words)

	General review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Buster is a locomotive engineer who saves a whole Confederate army single-handed.
		Buster Keaton has taken unto himself the task of filming the Civil War from the vantage-point of an engineer's cab.
		And with Buster at the throttle, it becomes involved in a chase -- a chase to the North and later to the South.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /generalreview.html (308 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Buster Keaton: The General
		The General was such a movie, based on a real incident during the American Civil War when a posse of northern soldiers hijacked a confederate train and a lone southern engineer found himself fighting the lot of them alone.
		He was the little man juxtaposed against a huge universe, and he did all his stunts himself, playing against, in his various films, a dinosaur, an ocean liner, the entire union and confederate armies, the New York police force, a tribe of Indians and a whole series of giant mechanical objects.
		The General contains all the values of the Keaton canon, in which his sense of parody (The Birth of a Nation here) and irony are supreme.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,104555,00.html (546 words)

	Broadband Streaming Movies The General with Buster Keaton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The genius of Buster Keaton is fully developed, as he plays Johnny Gray - the engineer of his beloved train called The General.
		Keaton is a legend and this movie shows you why he is so worthy.
		Buster Keaton is Johnnie Gray, a train engineer and he loves his machine - a puffing and wheezing locomotive that goes by the name of The General.
	www.liketelevision.com /web1/movies/keatongen (418 words)

	DVDBeaver.com - DVD Comparison Clyde Bruckman's - The General - Buster Keaton DVD Review Clyde Bruckman The General ...
		The General is perhaps Buster Keaton's finest film and shows the great comic of the silent era at the height of his powers.
		Keaton's talent lay in his slapstick ability and his famous stoney face expression which he gave at moments of great confusion.
		Unfortunately for Keaton's career, after the introduction of sound, no one was interested in his comic abilities anymore.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDCompare5/thegeneral.htm (807 words)

	Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
		Joseph Frank Keaton, nicknamed Buster after a remark the famous magician Harry Houdini is alleged to have made when the six-month-old baby took a fall down a flight of stairs, was born in a boarding house in Piqua, Kansas, and entered show business at the age of three performing with his father and mother as
		Keaton had now permanently abandoned broad comedy for more subtle gags in which the humor was allowed to build and in which his stoic sensitivity could shine forth through his seemingly unexpressive face.
		With television and a new interest in silent films, his fame began to revive, and by the time of his death from lung cancer, he was already being classed with Chaplin as the greatest of the silent clowns.
	www.selu.edu /Academics/Faculty/wparrill/Reviews/keatonbuster.html (648 words)

	Lycos- 'Buster Keaton - The General' in 'Feature Film & Love Stories'
		Double-feature of Buster Keaton classics\\, including: THE GENERAL - The two things engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) loves most in the world are his Southern belle sweetheart and his locomotive. ...
		Southern engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) embarks on a hair-raising adventure when his train is stolen by Unionists, with his girlfriend Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack) still on board.
		The General is one of the last great comedies of the silent era (3hrs 58mins\\, 2 DVDs).
	shopping.lycos.co.uk /2364en634475.html (191 words)

	The General - Buster Keaton
		The General is widely considered to be Buster Keaton's finest movie, a masterpiece; and I agree.
		Keaton is my favorite of the silent-era film comedians, and in The General he combines serious purpose, great attention to detail, and many fine comedic elements.
		The General locomotive still exists, and may be visited at the Kennesaw Civil War Museum in Georgia.
	www.troynovant.com /Franson-3/Keaton/General.html (383 words)

	La obra de Buster Keaton en un ciclo \| LANACION.com
		Al tiempo que terminaba su última película muda, Keaton tuvo la mala idea de ofender a Louis B. Mayer, y de esta forma ser condenado a un segundo plano, y a no dirigir más.
		A los 33 años, Keaton habría de convertirse en el más importante de los exponentes del período mudo que, a pesar de su genuino talento, no tuvieron posibilidad de incorporarse al sonoro.
		Nunca se recuperó de este golpe que se transformaría en una crisis nerviosa, que sólo pudo compensar con un puñado de participaciones en cortos y largos rutinarios, sin demasiado brillo, y a recibir un reconocimiento de su viejo competidor Chaplin, cuando éste lo invitó a hacer una breve aparición en "Candilejas", en 1952.
	www.lanacion.com.ar /entretenimientos/nota.asp?nota_id=826703 (409 words)

	Joseph Francis Keaton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I believe Buster Keaton is the greatest film comedian, actor, director and stuntman...
		Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow- If you've never seen a Buster Keaton movie and you need an introductory course, this is a three part series done by Thames Television.
		Keaton was the master of the romantic comedy, before there was such a thing.
	www.smirk.com /jim/keaton.html (472 words)

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