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.
Genres
Comedy, War, Romance
Studio
Joseph M. Schenck Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How The General performed
Budget
$750,000
Worldwide Gross
$1.0M
Gross Profit
$250,000
Return
1.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$144K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Johnnie Gray
Buster Keaton
Johnnie Gray
Annabelle Lee
Marion Mack
Annabelle Lee
Captain Anderson
Glen Cavender
Captain Anderson
General Thatcher
Jim Farley
General Thatcher
A Southern General
Frederick Vroom
A Southern General
Annabelle's Brother
Frank Barnes
Annabelle's Brother
Annabelle's Father
Charles Henry Smith
Annabelle's Father
Union General
Joe Keaton
Union General
Union General
Mike Donlin
Union General
Union General
Tom Nawn
Union General
Soldier (uncredited)
Henry Baird
Soldier (uncredited)
Soldier (uncredited)
Joe Bricher
Soldier (uncredited)
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