Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 79 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny 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.
- cannon
- army
- general
- southern usa
- spy
- fiancé
- bridge
- engineer
- attack
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Buster Keaton
Johnnie Gray
Marion Mack
Annabelle Lee
Glen Cavender
Captain Anderson
Jim Farley
General Thatcher
- Frederick Vroom — A Southern General
- Frank Barnes — Annabelle's Brother
- Charles Henry Smith — Annabelle's Father
- Joe Keaton — Union General
- Mike Donlin — Union General
- Tom Nawn — Union General
- Henry Baird — Soldier (uncredited)
- Joe Bricher — Soldier (uncredited)
- Jimmy Bryant — Raider (uncredited)
- Sergeant Bukowski — Officer (uncredited)
- C.C. Cruson — Officer (uncredited)
- Directed
- Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
- Written
- Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Production
- Studio
- Joseph M. Schenck Productions, Buster Keaton Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
