The General
Buster drives "The General" to trainload of laughter.
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.
- Director
- Clyde Bruckman
- Signature
- Craft · Drama · Action
- Worldwide
- $1M
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Cast
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15 billed performers
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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.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The General returned 1.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $750,000
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $1M
- Release date
- Dec 25, 1926
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- No Language
- Country
- United States of America
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