Name: Movie Night: The General (1928)
Start: 2024-12-01T17:00:00
Location: Noe Valley Ministry

Telegraph Quartet

Noe Music

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 locomotive falling from a burning bridge into a gorge far below. It was inspired by a real event; the screenplay was based on the book "The Great Locomotive Chase,” written by William Pittenger, the engineer who was involved.”