The General
Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton) has two loves: his locomotive The General and Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack). As the Civil War begins, both The General and Annabelle are captured by Union spies ...
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Critical Essay by E. Rubinstein
Keaton's addiction to his scrupulously well-made plots grew out of his awareness that the most astonishing comic invention demands the most conventional of dram...
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Critical Essay by Paul Warshow
[When Fleming's Gone With the Wind was re-released in 1967, the distributors tried to "modernize" the film.]
An analogous thing has been done re...
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Critical Essay by James Agee
Keaton worked strictly for laughs, but his work came from so far inside a curious and original spirit that he achieved a great deal besides, especially in his feature-len...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Houston
The hero of The General is a little engine driver, turned down by the Confederate recruiting sergeants, dismissed as a coward by his girl, who, in pursuit of his st...
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Critical Essay by J.-p. Lebel
Keaton's profoundly visual kind of comedy depends on his skill in directing which permits him to use space itself as an element in his gags. And thus by using dif...
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Critical Essay by Gerald Mast
[Only] Buster Keaton could rival Chaplin in his insight into human relationships, into the conflict between the individual man and the immense social machinery that surr...
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Two decades after Henry Ford rolled out the Model T in 1908, American cars still looked like boxes on wheels.That was before Harley Earl rolled into Detroit.Earl arrived in 1927 from Los Angeles, w...
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Amman (dpa) - The Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political arm of
Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood movement, on Saturday failed to take a
decision on running for the parliamenta...
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JAKARTA, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Former president Suharto's
stamp on Indonesia was so strong that a decade after his ouster
as its leader, the world's fourth-most populous country is
still struggling t...
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Istanbul (dpa) - Until recently, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan and his Islamic-conservative government were proud to have
transformed Turkey into a success.
...
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Gallup polling over the past three decades shows Republican front-runners usually win their party's nomination, but Democrats do not. Some elections:1972-DemocratsFebruary 1971: Edmund Muskie, 26 p...
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There are significant differences in perception about crime
victims between the victims themselves and the general public, a
Cabinet Office survey released Saturday showed.
The Cabinet Off...
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In a weirdly early head-to-head test of political attractiveness, two of the possible 2009 Democratic mayoral candidates, Bill Thompson and Adolfo Carrion, are both having fund-raisers this Thursda...
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Presidential candidates may return contributions solicited for the general election campaign and accept public financing with its stricter limitations, the Federal Election Commission ruled Thursda...
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A New York senator accused the drug giant Merck & Co. on Tuesday of conspiring to undercut a cheaper generic alternative to its cholesterol-lowering drug Zocor just days before it becomes ...
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(Reuters) - Iowa's caucuses, the first formal
contest to select the Democratic and Republican nominees for
the U.S. presidential election, will take place Jan. 3. Following is a history of the Iow...
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The General
Critical Essay by E. Rubinstein
The General Of Colorful Cars
