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Aro Favourite General, The

 

USA 1926, 75 minutes, B/W
Dir. Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Rating: [G]
Genres: Classics, Comedy / Silent Cinema, Trainspotter

Topics: Landmark.

 

Aroview: Buster Keaton risks life and limb to pursue his beloved rail engine, hijacked by Union spies at the time of the U.S. Civil War. Hilarious action-comedy is perhaps the greatest ever made, with its sequence of sight gags each topping the one before it.

NZ International Film Festival 1993

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DVD Features

Includes a treasure trove of extras including a reflection on The General by Buster Keaton, an Orson Welles introduction and a colourful handful of shorts.

  • 'making of' documentary / featurette
  • extra stuff
  • aspect ratio: 4:3
 

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