Buster Keaton represents all that is most brilliant and original in silent film comedy and he is at his very best in these two presentations. In One Week our hero attempts to assemble his wedding present, a D.I.Y. house, with predictably comic results. In The General, a daring raid in the American Civil War to capture a locomotive and burn bridges in order to break communication lines, is thwarted by an alert and quick-thinking Southern railroad engineer. It contains the most expensive single shot ever staged for a silent film and the ultimate movie chase sequence. The Live Cinema presentation of these films is by arrangement with Photoplay Productions.
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Tickets available online direct from the Royal Festival Hall . Most Recent Site Updates 2 April 2000 Survey scores updated for the first time since last July. LA Times and San Francisco Chronicle reviews of Silent Echoes added. A Legend In Laughter added. Cover shots added for two other books , The General by Joseph Warren and Film by Samuel Beckett.