Johnnie Gray tries to enlist with the Confederate Army in the beginning of the American Civil War, but is rejected because his job is a train engineer and he is much needed during the war. His girlfriend assumes that he didn't want to support the Confederacy and refuses to ever speak to him again. It so happens that Johnnie's train, The General, is hijacked by the Union and he finally gets a chance to show what he's really worth!


Books on The General

Noel Carroll
Comedy incarnate, Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping
Malden, MA, 2007

Books with substantial mentioning of The General

National Film Theatre
Fifty famous films, 1915-1945
[London], [[between 1945 and 1960]

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Brian J. Robb
Silent cinema
Harpenden, Herts, 2007

Roger Ebert
The Great Movies
2003

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Kathryn Bernheimer
The 50 Funniest Movies of All Time, A Critic's Ranking
Secaucus, NJ, 1999

Robert K. Klepper
Silent Films, 1877-1996, A Critical Guide to 646 Movies
Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1999

Glenn Mitchell
A-Z of Silent Film Comedy, An Illustrated Companion
London, 1998

Neil Sinyard
Classic Movies
London, 1993

Jim Kline
The Complete Films of Buster Keaton
Secaucus, N.J., 1993

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990

Ann Lloyd (ed.)
Movies of the Silent Years
London, 1985

Tony Thomas
The Great Adventure Films
Secaucus, NJ, 1980

Daniel Moews
Keaton, The Silent Features Close Up
Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1977

Walter Kerr
The Silent Clowns
New York, 1975

Books with an entry on The General

Larry Langman and David Ebner
Hollywood's Image of the South, A Century of Southern Films
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001

Larry Langman & David Ebner
Encyclopedia of American Spy Films
New York & London, 1990

Robert B. Connelly
The Motion Picture Guide, Silent Film 1910-1936
Chicago, 1986

Articles on The General

Douglas Brode, Silent Comedy as Social Criticism, A Textual Analysis of The General (1926), in: Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller (eds.), The American Civil War on film and TV, Lanham, Maryland, 2017


Year: 1926
Country: United States
 
IMDb: 0017925
AFI: 9303