Video: 'The General' (trailer)

(Friday, December 31, 1926, New Year’s Eve) — The General, an American silent comedy film about a Confederate engineer who fights to save his train and his girlfriend from the Union army, premiered today in two small theaters in Tokyo, Japan.

Directed by Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, the film starred Keaton and Marion Mack.

Video: 'Buster Keaton | The General (1926) [Silent Movie] [Action] [Comedy]'