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The general [videorecording (
DVD
)] : also featuring cops and the playhouse.
Kino Video, 1999.
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GEN
Com
Series
Video Difference legacy collection.
Format:
[videorecording (
DVD
)] :
Description:
1 videodisc (116 min.) : si. & Dolby digital sd., b&w & col. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
DVD
release of the 1926 silent film (The General); 1921 silent film (The Playhouse); and 1922 silent film (Cops).
Digitally mastered from archival prints with original musical scores.
Original feature the General color tinted. Cops and The Playhouse in black and white.
The General adapted by Al Boasberg and Charles Smith from William Pittenger's "The Great Locomotive Chase."
Home use only.
Silent film with English intertitles.
Contents:
The general (75 min.) -- Cops (18 min.) -- The playhouse (23 min.)
Production:
Series produced for video by David Shepard. The General written and directed by Buster Keatan and Clyde Bruckman; Cops and The Playhouse written and directed by Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline.
Performers:
The General features: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack.
The Playhouse features: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox.
Cops features: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox.
Summary:
The General: Rejected by the Confederate army, and taken for a coward by his beloved, young Johnny Gray is given a chance to redeem himself when he wages a one-man war against Yankee spies who have stolen his locomotive.
The Playhouse: a technical tour-de-force, Keaton portrays every member of a stage company, the entire audience and an undisciplined chimp to boot.
Cops: is the quintessential chase film with Buster tumbling into a series of marvelous mishaps while fleeing hundreds of uniformed policemen.
Genre:
Silent films.
Comedy films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966.
Bruckman, Clyde, 1894-1955.
Cline, Edward, 1892-1961
Mack, Marion, 1902-1989.
Fox, Virginia, 1902-1982
Boasberg, Al, 1892-1937.
Smith, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1865-1942
Shepard, David
Pittinger, William, 1840-1904. Great locomotive chase.
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