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The General

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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.

Archivist Notes

Imagineering★★★★★

"The quality of the cinematography and the editing was outstanding, for the time. Keaton was a genius in the art of storytelling. Kudos to whoever cle..."

10/19/2010
JConnolly★★★★★

"The General is one of the greatest films ever made. There's no use trying to avoid exaggeration on this point. The story is simple: A railway engineer..."

5/30/2010
pickford82★★★★

"This version of the film is indeed complete & clearer (unlike this one here: http://www.archive.org/details/TheGeneral) but then, it lacks music score..."

8/22/2009
thepalebright★★★★★

"MPEG4 is proper aspect ratio."

2/16/2009
Ham549★★★

"The video was out of proportion when I played it."

9/5/2008
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