TY - ADVS AU - Keaton,Buster AU - Bruckman,Clyde AU - Boasberg,Al AU - Smith,Charles H. AU - Schenck,Joseph M. AU - Mack,Marion AU - Cavender,Glen AU - Farley,Jim AU - Vroom,Frederick AU - Pittenger,William ED - United Artists Corporation ED - Kino International Corporation TI - The general U1 - 791.4372 PY - 2008/// CY - New York, NY PB - Kino International KW - Pittenger, William, KW - Locomotive engineers KW - Drama KW - Railroad trains KW - United States KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Confederate States of America N1 - Adapted by Al Boasberg and Charles Smith from William Pittenger's "The Great Locomotive Chase."; Original feature is color tinted; special features in color with black and white sequences; DVD release of the 1926 silent film; Special features: three musical scores; video tour of the authentic General; behind-the-scenes home movie footage; filmed introduction by Gloria Swanson; filmed introduction by Orson Welles; "The Buster Express": a brisk montage of train gags from throughout Keaton's career.; Disc 1. The feature film -- disc 2. Special features; Photography, Dev Jennings, Bert Haines ; music: 1. composed and conducted by Carl Davis, performed by The Thames Silents Orchestra; 2. arranged and directed by Robert Israel; or 3. theatre organ score by Lee Erwin; Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glenn Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom, Charles Smith, Frank Barnes N2 - Rejected by the Confederate army, and taken for a coward by his beloved, young Johnny Gray is given a chance to redeem himself when he wages a one-man war against Yankee spies who have stolen his locomotive ER -