Movie Night: The General (1928)

Roger Ebert called The General a “masterpiece” and gave it his highest 4-star rating, writing in 1997: “[Keaton's films] have such a graceful perfection, such a meshing of story, character and episode, that they unfold like music…The General is an epic of silent comedy, one of the most expensive films of its time, including an accurate historical recreation of a Civil War episode, hundreds of extras, dangerous stunt sequences, and an actual locom...