8/28/14 The General (1926) Director: Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton, Clyde Bruckman ★★★★★ Buster Keaton’s monumental film The General was inspired by a true historical event known as the “Great Locomotive Chase.” As a lifelong lover of trains, Buster Keaton was drawn to this story –he often included trains in his…
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David Wark Griffith
D.W. Griffith was born and raised in La Grange, Kentucky as the as the youngest child of seven, and his father served as a colonel in the Confederate army. After his failure to sell a script to Edwin S. Porter of Edison Studios under the pseudonym of Lawrence Griffith, Porter…