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.
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.
DVD, NTSC ; fullscreen presentation.
Silent film with English intertitles.
National Film Registry selection, 1989.
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