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THE GENERAL

For weeks, no months really I have been waiting for December, not for Christmas, no something just as good though. Finally after wishing and hoping for the last couple of years I would get to see Buster Keaton on a big screen with an audience. Last Monday night was that night. I know that I have mentioned Buster Keaton a couple of times on my blog before but if you really haven't seen one of his movies I really urge you do so. So where did this interest in Buster begin. About 3 years ago I went into my local DVD store and there he was staring out at me amongst the "nostalgia" section. I thought to myself he's got an interesting face I think I would like to watch that movie, but I couldn't as they only had it on Video Tape and my video machine had long ago died a natural death. So instead I went home and on my online DVD outlet I ordered The General to rent, it arrived a day or so later, on a Friday. On the copy that they sent me was also a two-reeler that Buster h...