The General (United Artists) (1926)

Record Details:

Title:
The General (United Artists)
Date:
1926
Publisher:
United Artists
Volume:
The General (United Artists Pressbook, 1926)
Leaf #:
00016
Language:
English
Collection:
Pressbooks
Format:
Periodicals
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Pressbook for the film The General, starring Buster Keaton.
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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- - BOX OFFICE laughs; PROCLAIM “The General" as Buster Keaton’s newest production. ^ ANNOUNCE it as his first United Artists picture. EMPHASIZE that it is his BIGGEST picture. REMIND your public that Buster’s producer, Joseph M. Schenck abolished all limits on cash in pre- paring the most ambitious production of the famous comedian’s career. STRESS the fact that “The General’’ is a super- calibre comedy—fashioned in the de-luxe mam ner—with towns, railroads and bridges built to provide the machinery for colossal humor; with vasty landscapes and mobs and battles to point Titanic frolicking. MAKE KNOWN that this is the FASTEST of all Buster Keaton comedies. The most screaming of comedy situations is based on THRILL. In “The General,’’ Laugh after Laugh is piled Thrill upon Thrill. HEADLINE “The General’’ as spectacular; as stir¬ ring; as vibrating with love interest; as accurate in its historic background; as lavish in produc¬ tion; as 100 per cent, entertainment; as sublime, knockout, convulsing FUN. TELL THEM— THRILLS BY THE HUNDREDS! LAUGHS BY THE THOUSANDS! n - ^ V S » L ^