The General

Buster Keaton's crowning achievement and one of the greatest films ever made. During the Civil War, locomotive engineer Johnnie Gray pursues the Union spies who have stolen both his beloved train 'The General' and his fiancée. Featuring breathtaking stunt work, ingenious visual gags, and a climactic train crash that was the most expensive single shot in silent film history. Orson Welles called it 'the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made.'