Buster Keaton & Marion Mack in Buster Keaton's THE GENERAL (1926) (as restored by the Cohen Collection) will be presented on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Don Eaves Heritage House Arts & Civic Center, 1428 Jenkins Road.
Admission is free. Running time is 1:23. Due to limited seating, please RSVP with the total number in your party via either phone at 423-855-9474 or email at HeritageHouse@chattanooga.gov.
About the film:
One of the most revered comedies of the silent era, Buster Keaton's The General, finds hapless Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) facing off against Union soldiers during the American Civil War.
When Johnny's fiancée, Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), is accidentally taken away while on a train stolen by Northern forces, Gray pursues the soldiers, using various modes of transportation in comic action scenes that highlight Keaton's boundless wit and dexterity.
See trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDdH8mccu00/.