Le Mécano de la Générale (1926)
The General
Réalisateurs : Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Scénaristes : Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Genres : Action, Aventure, Comédie, Drame, Romance
67 minutes
Status : Released
Budget : 750 000 $
Langue : No Language
Pays : United States of America
Sociétés de production : Joseph M. Schenck Productions, Buster Keaton Productions
Synopsis
Conducteur de locomotive, Johnnie Gray habite à Marietta, en Géorgie. Il est fiancé à Annabelle Lee. La guerre de Sécession éclate : le père et le frère de la jeune fille sont incorporés. Pas Johnny, qu'on juge plus utile à son poste et qu'entache ainsi, aux yeux de tous et même de sa fiancée, un soupçon de couardise. Un jour, des soldats nordistes volent sa locomotive, la «General», et enlèvent dans la foulée sa fiancée, Annabelle Lee. De peur d'être définitivement pris pour un lâche, Johnnie s'en va-t-en guerre : il se lance seul à la poursuite des voleurs...
- Buster Keaton - Johnny Gray
- Marion Mack - Annabelle Lee
- Glen Cavender - Captain Anderson
- Jim Farley - General Thatcher
- Frederick Vroom - A Southern General
- Charles Henry Smith - Annabelle's Father
- Joe Keaton - Union General
- Al St. John - Officer on Horseback (uncredited)
- Frank Barnes - Annabelle's Brother
- Mike Donlin - Union General
- Tom Nawn - Union General
- Jimmy Bryant - Raider (uncredited)
- Budd Fine - Raider (uncredited)
- Ray Hanford - Raider (uncredited)
- Charles Phillips - Raider (uncredited)
- Eddie Foster - Union Railroad Fireman (uncredited)
- Frank Hagney - Confederate Recruiter (uncredited)
- Jack Hanlon - Bit Part (uncredited)
- Edward Hearn - Union Officer (uncredited)
- Hilliard Karr - Soldier (uncredited)
- Louis Lewyn - Soldier (uncredited)
- Elgin Lessley - Union General Who Gives Command to Cross Bridge (uncredited)
- Henry Baird - Soldier (uncredited)
- Joe Bricher - Soldier (uncredited)
- Sergeant Bukowski - Officer (uncredited)
- C.C. Cruson - Officer (uncredited)
- Jack Dempster - Raider (uncredited)
- Keith Fennell - Soldier (uncredited)
- Ronald Gilstrap - Union Soldier (uncredited)
- Al Hanson - Raider (uncredited)
- Anthony Harvey - Raider (uncredited)
- Jackie Lowe - Boy Who Follows Johnny (uncredited)
- Billy Lynn - Soldier (uncredited)
- Ross McCutcheon - Raider (uncredited)
- Tom Moran - Raider (uncredited)
- Red Rial - Raider (uncredited)
- Harold Terry - Union Soldier (uncredited)
- Ray Thomas - Raider (uncredited)
- Red Thompson - Raider (uncredited)
- James Walsh - Soldier (uncredited)
- Kenneth Hawley Ward - Soldier (uncredited)
- John Wilson - Union Soldier (uncredited)
- Jean Woodward - (uncredited)
