Lee bronze from Charlottesville may have been chucked on the scrap heap, but what about another general, not a human but the machine piloted by Buster Keaton ... half of its budget of three ...

a spotless new transfer of Buster Keaton’s 1926 epic, The General. Kino initially released a DVD of The General in 1999, which looks like every other version I’ve seen in theaters or at home ...

Comedian Buster Keaton, 70, Hollywood immortal whose trade ... using old-fashioned subtitles with a written score. This was ‘The General.’ It was made in 1926, and hell, that’s 39 years ...