During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie 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.
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Film Cast:

• Johnny Gray: Buster Keaton
• Annabelle Lee: Marion Mack
• Captain Anderson: Glen Cavender
• General Thatcher: Jim Farley
• A Southern General: Frederick Vroom
• Annabelle’s Father: Charles Henry Smith
• Union General: Joe Keaton
• Officer on Horseback (uncredited): Al St. John
• Annabelle’s Brother: Frank Barnes
• Union General: Mike Donlin
• Union General: Tom Nawn
• Raider (uncredited): Jimmy Bryant
• Raider (uncredited): Budd Fine
• Raider (uncredited): Ray Hanford
• Raider (uncredited): Charles Phillips
• Union Railroad Fireman (uncredited): Eddie Foster
• Confederate Recruiter (uncredited): Frank Hagney
• Bit Part (uncredited): Jack Hanlon
• Union Officer (uncredited): Edward Hearn
• Soldier (uncredited): Hilliard Karr
• Soldier (uncredited): Louis Lewyn
• Union General Who Gives Command to Cross Bridge (uncredited): Elgin Lessley

Film Crew:

• Adaptation: Al Boasberg
• Stunts: Buster Keaton
• Director: Clyde Bruckman
• Producer: Joseph M. Schenck
• Production Manager: Fred Gabourie
• First Assistant Camera: Harry J. Wild
• Director of Photography: Bert Haines
• Director of Photography: Devereaux Jennings
• Editor: Sherman Kell
• Set Decoration: Harry Roselotte
• Second Unit: Glen Cavender
• Adaptation: Charles Henry Smith
• Construction Foreman: Frank Barnes
• Camera Operator: Byron Houck
• Camera Operator: Elmer Ellsworth
• Assistant Director: Edward Hearn
• Stunts: Earl Mohan
• Still Photographer: Dal Clawson
• Makeup Artist: Fred Carlton Ryle
• Production Coordinator: Harry Brand
• Book: William Pittenger

Movie Reviews:

• Andres Gomez: Just amazing.

  Really, really impressive scenes with the railway engines and a physically incredible Keaton.