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The The General Download-----------------------------------------DOWNLOAD: http://urllio.com/qzzz5 -----------------------------------------Johnnie Gray has two loves in his life: his engine and his girl, Annabelle Lee. The War Between the States begins with an attack on Fort Sumter, and Johnnie is the first in line at the recruitment office. But the enlisting officer rejects him (not telling him the reason: he is more valuable to the South as an engineer). Annabelle believes he didn't even try to enlist, and she refuses to even speak to him until he is in uniform. Time passes and Union spies hatch a plot involving Johnnie's engine, The General. Not only do they steal The General while Johnnie and the passengers are off the train having dinner, but they kidnap Annabelle who was still on board. Johnnie pursues The General in another engine, The Texas. Through various mishaps he becomes the Unionists' sole pursuer. When the Unionists discover the train chasing them has only one man aboard, the long pursuit ends, and Johnnie barely escapes with his life. Johnnie is now behind enemy lines. He wanders the forest during a rainstorm then discovers a house, which he breaks into, grabbing what food he can. It turns out the Unionists who stole The General are using the house as a base of operations. While hiding under the dinner table, Johnnie learns the details of their next plot against the Confederates. More importantly, he discovers they have Annabelle Lee, whom he had never guessed was still on The General when it was taken. Johnnie manages to escape with Annabelle and take back The General. Now the Unionists are pursuing Johnnie, but if he and Annabelle can outrace them they can warn the Confederates of the Union's latest plan.Union solders have stolen The General, a Confederate train manned by Johnnie Gray, who was unable to enlist in the Confederate army because he is needed as an engineer. The Union plans to use the train to supply its soldiers in a sneak attack against the Confederates. But now it's up to Gray and his love, Annabelle Lee, to reclaim The General, recross enemy lines, and warn the Confederates.This film is very unique in a lot of ways.
Buster Keaton's particular style tends to contain a playfulness involving machinery and nature, and this film is not only no exception, it's more like the actualization of his oevre into an almost final, complete form.
The key thing here is the trains. Keaton loves trains, and indeed this film has more trains than you can shake a stick at... not that you can really shake a stick at a train and expect something to happen, but you get the point. Anyways, not only does it have a lot of trains, it has a lot more trains than I think any other film (it definitely has more trains than any other film I've seen, that is). Furthermore, while I have seen other films involving train chases, I've very seldomly seen films involving trains chasing trains... and even the ones I have don't have as many.
For that matter, this film seems almost Hollywoodesque in its train-chases and explosions. Lots of chases, lots of explosions, sounds like Ye Olde Hollywood Fare to me!, only it's like, way before that became typical Hollywood use and it's all tied together specifically by the great Keaton himself.
Some people express a little dissatisfaction by the fact that Keaton takes the side of the South. I don't know particularly why he did that, but what strikes me about this film is how it also takes little pokes of parody at the great Birth of a Nation. Furthermore, his relationship with the girl in this case seems like a pretty good deconstruction of the ol' Southern Belle, and that's pretty funny too.
I like this film slightly less than other of Keaton's films because it's epic. Actually, this makes this film technically at or above the level of Keaton's other films because of the sheer scale of it. I just like it less because it's slightly less Keaton, and he doesn't have nearly as much space to do what he possibly could. However, touches of his real hard-hitting humor still come through, like when he is sitting on the piston and the train starts to leave while he stares forlornly into space... I'm sure we can all recognize the feeling of just having to let ourselves be carried away by the world when it seems there's no hope for love.
Thus, I give this film a 10 out of 10 rating for technical superiority, but 8 out of 10 reflects my personal ranking of it in comparison of other films of his I like. If you like this and haven't seen Sherlock Jr. yet, please see that one as it's my personal favorite.
--PolarisDiBNumerous comments posted here discuss the details of this film, so I'll just post a few comments.
I've watched this feature several times, and shown the video to friends (who tend to find it mesmerizing). The beauty of The General is in its ambitious mix: historical documentary, action-adventure film and slapstick comedy all rolled into one.
Keaton's mostly clever physical gags never detract from the seriousness of the story. This is just a brilliant film. I've yet to see a Civil War picture that better captures the feel of that era with such haunting realism. A Brady photograph at 24 frames per second, as old as the War Between the States, yet the film is very well preserved. I've seen many films from the 1930s with less clarity.
Of course this movie was a commercial bomb in 1927. When is true genius ever recognized in its own time?
Fans of this movie can visit the real 1856 The General locomotive in Kennesaw, GA just NW of Atlanta. The steam engine was stolen from nearby Big Shanty station by Union spies just as is depicted in this film. Much later The General was rescued again after another fight, this time in a courtroom, when Georgia reclaimed The General from the State of Tennessee in 1972. Check out the southernmusuem.org website for more info on the museum housing The General. It's a great artifact of Civil War heritage.
As is Keaton's masterpiece of the silent era. 9 out of 10.Source: Marion Meade, Buster Keaton, Cut to the Chase, London, 1995, p. 166 This film is in the public domain, which means that anyone can legally distribute a video copy without paying royalties. Only a few will take the trouble to find a good print or spend money improving the one they have. You may find the film on any number of cheaply-priced discs. Finding a copy with good picture and sound is another matter. Shop around.
You can begin your search here at Amazon.com. The General (1927) has no music score. It's a silent film. The music you're hearing was added by its distributor. The quality of the music on DVDs of silent movies varies from distributor to distributor. Some record original scores, some carefully piece together a score from public domain sources and some slap on an irrelevant soundtrack. This film does have good distributors that use good music scores. Shop around. Try watching a silent film without one. When the music is good, it adds to your enjoyment of the film. Even a mediocre score is better than nothing. Yes. Silent movies were shown with live musical accompaniment, which meant anything from a single pianist to a full orchestra, depending on what theater you attended a5c7b9f00b https://pastebin.com/3d4yCWzS http://neuqn.com/m/feedback/view/HeMan-And-The-Masters-Of-The-Universe-In-Hindi-720p https://disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-pyocopakonpa/the_batman_full_movie_hd_download/ https://disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-nontsungvenpiring/the_zone_download_movies/ https://www.causes.com/posts/4931611 http://millionairex3.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-oceanmaker-movie-mp4-download http://telegra.ph/Episode-1189-Full-Movie-In-Hindi-Free-Download-Mp4-09-18 http://www.animalfinder.co.uk/en/news/view/id/264938 http://realbossltd.com/m/feedback/view/Fly-Full-Movie-Free-Download http://www.ggf.lt/en/news/view/id/264947
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