En af filmhistoriens største komikere i en af verdens allersjoveste farcer.
Filmen kan genses i Vester Vov Vov og Malling Bio fra 25. december 2019
DCP med danske tekster.
"Nyd en af filmhistoriens største og mest sympatiske tour de force-præstationer. Så sjov som nogen sinde" Politiken
"Et enestående mesterværk. Generalen er simpelt hen pragtfuld, vidunderlig, mageløs og genial" Berlingske
"Underfundig ironisk farce" Ekstra Bladet
"Sin helt egen tidsløse poesi" BT
"Uendelig morsom" Cinemazone
The plot centres around the youthful Johnny Gray
(Buster Keaton), a brave little Southern engineer on the Western & Atlantic
Rail Road running through Georgia. The Civil War is declared and Johnny tries
to enlist but is told that he is more valuable as an engineer. When his train,
containing his girlfriend Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), is stolen by Union
spies, Johnny takes another locomotive and the most memorable chase in silent
film history ensues.
Of special interest is the amazing fact that Keaton performed the dangerous and
hair-raising stunts himself, numerous times, on real moving trains. One of
Keaton’s best silent features, it is a tremendous action comedy with a host of
visual gags. Keaton edited, co-directed (with Clyde Bruckman) and co-wrote the
screenplay (with Al Boasberg and Charles Smith) based on the story ‘The Great
Locomotive Chase’ by William Pittenger.