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I am sure, there are other versions around. So you should choose between this literaly silent but better version and the one that starts with the enlistment scene, not at the beginning of the movie, and is heavily sepia-tinted and oversaturated. This version of the film is indeed complete & clearer (unlike this one here: ) but then, it lacks music score (I downloaded the ogg file). It's the hilarious, and poignant, and very human take the civil war, love and battle, and trains, that makes this one of the greatest films of all time. And witohut giving the plot away, there are subsequent amazingly choreographed sequences involving trains, bridges, pitched battles, and rescues in dark stormy nights. The film shows masterful comic timing all revolving around essentially one man on a train. And as a train driver, he is disqualified from active service - And stays behind, accused unjustly of cowardice, as the other men volunteer, and head off to the front in the instroductory sequences.
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The second love of his life is the locomotive he drives. The character is one of the pillars of the film: Buster Keaton is a shy and timid creature, ill at ease in company for example when he accompies his loved one home. The story is simple: A railway engineer caught up in the civil war makes good, and saves his girl from the enemy. There's no use trying to avoid exaggeration on this point. The General is one of the greatest films ever made.