71-479: The General or The Generals may refer to: Film and television [ edit ] The General (1926 film) , a Buster Keaton film The General (1992 film) , a Russian war film The General (1998 film) , a John Boorman drama about Dublin criminal Martin Cahill The General (TV series) , a British TV fly-on-the-wall documentary series about
142-532: A Today Tonight report identified Cahill as the man behind the O'Donovan bomb plot, the 1986 Russborough House robbery and the robbery of O'Connors jewellery depot. As a result, PD leader Dessie O'Malley raised in the Dáil the revelations that Cahill owned such expensive property in Cowper Downs , despite having never worked, remarking that Cahill must have needed the extra wall space to "hang his artwork by
213-447: A $ 2,900 lawsuit, and the train's wood-burning engine causing numerous fires. The fires often spread to forests and farmers' haystacks, which cost the production $ 25 per burnt stack. On July 23, Keaton shot the climactic train wreck scene in the conifer forest near Cottage Grove. The town declared a local holiday so that everyone could watch the spectacle. Between three and four thousand local residents showed up, including 500 extras from
284-746: A biographical film titled The General , starring Brendan Gleeson as Cahill. The film won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival . It was based on a book by Irish crime journalist Paul Williams , who was also the crime editor of the Irish tabloid the Sunday World . Boorman himself once had his home burgled by Cahill, who stole the gold record which Boorman had won for the Deliverance soundtrack. This incident
355-442: A biography of Charles de Gaulle by Jonathan Fenby The General (Bilby book) , a biography of David Sarnoff by Kenneth W. Bilby Music [ edit ] "The General" (Dispatch song) , 1998 The General (Guns N' Roses song) , 2023 "The General", a song by The Rifles from Great Escape Other uses [ edit ] The General (horse) , a horse owned by American President John Tyler The General (Idaho) ,
426-552: A considerable sum in exchange for Cahill's assassination. Even though Frances Cahill's memoir, Martin Cahill, My Father , alleges the General detested and steered clear of drug trafficking , his brother Peter was imprisoned for heroin trafficking. After a Roman Catholic requiem mass , Martin Cahill was buried in consecrated ground at Mount Jerome Cemetery . In 2001, his gravestone was vandalised and broken in two. Following
497-603: A copyright registration in 1953 and renewed it in 1983. In 1987, Carl Davis composed a score for the film, which was later used with a 4K restoration of the film in 2019. In 2016 or 2017, an original score was commissioned to celebrate the 90th anniversaries of both The General and the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon . The film subsequently toured Oregon. After its showing in Cottage Grove ,
568-515: A diabetic. Cahill was married to Frances Lawless with whom he fathered five children. However, it is also believed that Cahill had, with Frances' approval, a mistress in his wife's younger sister Tina Lawless, with whom Cahill is believed to have fathered a further four children. This polygamous arrangement was depicted in the 1998 biopic of Cahill's life, The General . In 1998 John Boorman (who had lived in Ireland for nearly 20 years) directed
639-579: A fire behind The General in the center of the Rock River Bridge to cut off the Union's supply line. Reaching friendly lines, Johnnie warns the Confederate commander of the impending attack and their forces rush to meet the enemy. Meanwhile, Annabelle is reunited with her convalescing father. The pursuing Texas drives onto the burning bridge, which collapses. When Union soldiers try to ford
710-585: A girl from Rathmines , where his family was living. With his brothers, he continued to commit multiple burglaries in the affluent neighbourhoods nearby, at one point even robbing the Garda Síochána depot for confiscated firearms. The Cahill brothers soon turned to armed robbery, and by the early 1970s Gardaí at the Dublin Central Detective Unit (CDU) had identified the Cahill brothers as major criminals, when they teamed up with
781-423: A hospital "The General" ( The Prisoner ) , an episode of The Prisoner "The General", an episode of Spyforce "The General" ( Star Wars: The Clone Wars ) Literature [ edit ] Fictional works [ edit ] "The General", a 1918 poem by Siegfried Sassoon The General (Forester novel) , a work about a World War I general by C. S. Forester The General (Muchamore novel) ,
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#1732772060572852-543: A local shop. Upon reaching a road junction (where Oxford Road meets Charleston Road) he was repeatedly shot in the face and upper torso and died almost instantly. The gunman, who was armed with a .357 Magnum revolver, jumped on a motorbike, and disappeared from the scene. There are a number of theories about who killed Martin Cahill and why. Within hours of Cahill's death, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) claimed responsibility in
923-558: A long and tiresome chase of one engine by another." A review in Motion Picture Classic called it "a mild Civil War comedy, not up to Keaton's best standards." A review in the New York Herald Tribune called it "long and tedious — the least-funny thing Buster Keaton has ever done." Writer Robert E. Sherwood wrote, "Someone should have told Buster Keaton that it is difficult to derive laughter from
994-668: A mountain in the United States The General (locomotive) , a locomotive commandeered in the Great Locomotive Chase of the American Civil War The General (insurance) , an insurance agency specializing in automobile insurance, formerly Permanent General The General (magazine) , a wargaming magazine published by Avalon Hill The General, a nickname for US automobile manufacturer General Motors People with
1065-854: A novel in the CHERUB book series by Robert Muchamore The General (series) , a series of science fiction novels by S. M. Stirling The General (Sillitoe novel) , a World War II novel by Alan Sillitoe The Generals (novel) , a 2007 novel by Simon Scarrow The Generals , a novel in the series Brotherhood of War by W. E. B. Griffin Fictional characters [ edit ] General (DC Comics) , an enemy of Batman and other DC superheroes General Wade Eiling , another DC Comics supervillain, sometimes known as simply "The General" The General, an enemy found in Marvel's Sentry Non-fiction works [ edit ] The General (Fenby book) ,
1136-784: A press release. The reasons cited were Cahill's alleged involvement with a Portadown unit of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). The UVF unit in question had recently attempted a bomb attack on a south Dublin Irish pub which was hosting a Sinn Féin fund-raiser on 21 May 1994. The UVF operatives had been prevented from entering by pub doorman and Volunteer in the Provisional IRA's Dublin Brigade Martin Doherty , who they instead shot dead. The IRA further alleged that Cahill had been involved in selling
1207-472: A railroad tie out from being lodged into the track, with the train steadily approaching, then sitting on the cow-catcher of the slow-moving train while carrying the tie, then tossing it at another tie to dislodge it from the tracks, had he either failed to pull out the first tie on time, or mistimed the throw to the second tie, the locomotive could have derailed and Keaton could have been injured or killed. Another dangerous stunt involved him sitting on one of
1278-464: A visit to Cahill's tent and persuaded him to move into a new house in a more upscale district of Rathmines . Cahill and his gang stole gold and diamonds with a value of over IR£2 million (€2.55 million; €6.35 million in 2021, adjusted for inflation) from O'Connor's jewellers in Harolds Cross (1983); the jeweller was subsequently forced to close, with the loss of more than one hundred jobs. He
1349-595: Is a 1926 American silent film released by United Artists . It was inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase , a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War . The story was adapted from the 1889 memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger . The film stars Buster Keaton , who also co-directed it along with Clyde Bruckman . At the time of its initial release, The General, an action comedy film made toward
1420-501: Is depicted in the film. Ken Stott starred as Cahill in a 1999 BBC drama, Vicious Circle written by Kieran Prendiville The 2003 film Veronica Guerin implies that John Gilligan ordered Cahill's murder. In the film Gilligan and Traynor are not portrayed as Cahill's subordinates. Instead, Gilligan appears as a rival mob boss and Traynor as a lower-level associate. The film Ordinary Decent Criminal , starring Kevin Spacey ,
1491-578: Is in uniform. A year passes, and Annabelle receives word that her father has been wounded. She travels north on the W&;ARR to see him, with The General pulling the train. When it makes a stop, the passengers and crew detrain for a quick meal. As previously planned, Union Army spies led by Captain Anderson use the opportunity to steal the train. Anderson's objective is to burn all the railroad bridges he passes, thus preventing reinforcement and resupply of
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#17327720605721562-657: Is listed last. The General premiered on December 31, 1926, in two small theaters in Tokyo, Japan . It was scheduled to have its US premiere at the prestigious Capitol Theatre in New York City on January 22, 1927, but was delayed for several weeks due to the enormous hit, Flesh and the Devil , then playing at the Capitol. It finally premiered on February 5, with the engine bell from the real General train on display in
1633-489: Is now considered a major classic of the silent era. David Robinson wrote, "Every shot has the authenticity and the unassumingly correct composition of a Mathew Brady Civil War photograph." Raymond Durgnat wrote, "Perhaps The General is the most beautiful [film], with its spare, grey photography, its eye for the racy, lunging lines of the great locomotives, with their prow-like cowcatchers, with its beautifully sustained movement." In 2015, leftist magazine Jacobin called
1704-604: The Oregon National Guard . (Elsewhere in the film, the Oregon National Guard members appear dressed as both Union and Confederate soldiers who cross the landscape in the background of the train tracks). Keaton used six cameras for the train wreck scene, which began four hours late and required several lengthy trial runs. The train wreck of the "Texas" shot cost $ 42,000, the most expensive single shot in silent-film history. The production company left
1775-522: The Union Army perspective, Keaton did not believe that the audience would accept Confederates as villains and changed the story's point of view. Keaton looked into shooting the film in the area where the original events took place, and attempted to authorize a lease agreement for the real-life General . At that time, the locomotive was on display at Chattanooga Union Station . The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway , who had entitlement on
1846-412: The coupling rods connecting the drivers of the locomotive , had the locomotive suffered a wheelspin , Keaton might have been thrown from the rod and injured or killed. Shot in one take, the scene shows the train starting gently and gradually picking up speed as it enters a shed, while Keaton's character Johnnie Gray, distracted and heartbroken, is oblivious. In the cast credits, Keaton's name/character
1917-413: The 1980s Rinus Michels (1928-2005), Dutch football player and manager See also [ edit ] El General , Panamanian reggaeton artist born Edgardo Franco in 1964 General (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The General . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
1988-531: The 1996 murder of journalist Veronica Guerin , the Dáil set up the Criminal Assets Bureau , to seize assets of those who were both convicted of crimes, and also seemingly had no obvious means of income. The CAB was set up to focus mainly on high-profile drug dealers but had an open approach to all convicted criminals. Cahill denied that he was ever involved in drug dealing; however, his brother Peter
2059-465: The Confederate army. Annabelle, having returned to the train to fetch her belongings, is taken captive by the spies. Johnnie gives chase, first on foot, then by handcar and boneshaker bicycle , before reaching the station at Kingston . He alerts the army detachment there, which boards another train to give chase, with Johnnie manning the locomotive the Texas . However, the flatcars are not hooked up to
2130-517: The Dutch masters." As a result, the Gardaí set up a Special Surveillance Unit (SSU), nicknamed "Tango Squad", to specifically target and monitor Cahill's gang on a permanent, 24/7 basis. Cahill was given the callsign Tango-1. The SSU also placed a direct presence on the estate at Cowper Downs, positioning a surveillance unit in the home of developer John Sisk, whose house backed onto Cahill's. Following
2201-652: The Gardaí believe that Traynor and Gilligan approached the IRA and accused Cahill of importing heroin , a drug that the IRA despised and were trying to prevent from being sold in Dublin. Reputedly this, and Cahill's past dealings with the Ulster loyalists , gave the Provisional IRA reason to order his assassination. A further incentive was provided by Gilligan and Traynor, from whom the Provisionals allegedly demanded and received
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2272-457: The Lacey family by shooting Kavanagh in the leg. Kavanagh was then to call the Irish newspapers from his hospital bed, and claim he was a victim of the Lacey kidnapping gang. However, the plan failed, and the gang were arrested. With all gang members from the Lacey kidnapping released on bail, on 18 August 1994, Cahill left the house at which he had been staying at Swan Grove and began driving to
2343-520: The arrest of two of Cahill's associates in an attempted robbery, and resentful of the large Garda presence near his home, Cahill retaliated by ordering his men to slash the tyres of 197 cars on the night of 26 February 1988 (including 90 belonging to his neighbours in Cowper Downs). Cahill returned home to find his own Mercedes-Benz smashed. In early 1993, John "The Coach" Traynor , met his boss Cahill, to provide him with inside information about
2414-477: The bank's vaults. On 1 November 1993, Cahill's gang seized Lacey and his wife outside his home in Blackrock . Whilst they were held at Lacey's home, Kavanagh was brought in and tied up, telling the family that he had been abducted two weeks before. On 2 November, Kavanagh drove Lacey to College Green to collect the ransom money, with Lacey eventually withdrawing IR£300,000 from an accessible cash machine. After
2485-431: The cash had been handed over to the gang, Kavanagh told Gardaí that the pair had been kidnapped and forced to take part in a robbery. With a ransom note requesting payment of IR£10 million in cash, the Gardaí began investigating. They quickly found that Kavanagh had claimed child allowance during his two-week "capture", and so arrested him. Cahill then planned with Kavanagh to "raid" Kavanagh's home, and show intent to kill
2556-431: The choice of three orchestral scores. The film was recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: * 2000: AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – #18 2007: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – #18. In 1953, a new version of the film was created by film distributor and collector Raymond Rohauer, re-edited with an introduction and music. That version is still under copyright, because Rohauer filed
2627-421: The directors poll. In 2002, critic Roger Ebert ranked it sixth in the 2002 Sight & Sound Greatest Films poll and included it on his The Great Movies list. Dave Whitaker of DavesMovieDatabase, a film aggregator site that combines other lists with box-office, ratings and awards, lists The General as the 99th-greatest movie of all time, the 21st-greatest comedy, and the 3rd-greatest silent. A mural
2698-532: The end of production. One third of the film's budget was spent in Cottage Grove, and 1,500 locals were hired. Filming began on June 8. At first, Keaton completely ignored Mack on set. She said that "Buster just stuck to the job and to his little clique, and that was all" and that the crew "stopped the train when they saw a place to play baseball." Keaton eventually came to like Mack during production, often playing practical jokes on her. The atmosphere on set
2769-447: The end of the silent era , was not well received by critics and audiences, resulting in mediocre box office returns (about half a million dollars domestically, and approximately one million worldwide). Because of its huge budget ($ 750,000 supplied by Metro chief Joseph Schenck ) and failure to turn a significant profit, Keaton lost his independence as a film maker and was forced into a restrictive deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . In 1954,
2840-546: The engine and the troops are left behind. By the time Johnnie realizes he is alone, it is too late to turn back. The Union agents try various methods to shake their pursuer, including disconnecting their trailing car and dropping railroad ties on the tracks. As the chase continues northward, the Confederate Army of Tennessee is ordered to retreat and the Northern army advances in its wake. Now behind Union lines,
2911-474: The engine, denied Keaton's request when they realized the film was going to be a comedy. In April 1926, Keaton's location manager, Burt Jackson, found an area in Oregon with old-fashioned railroads which he ascertained to be more authentic in terms of period setting for the film. He also discovered that the Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway owned two vintage locomotives operating in lumber service that looked
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2982-508: The female lead role. The cast and crew arrived in Cottage Grove, Oregon , on May 27, 1926, with 18 freight cars full of Civil War-era cannons, rebuilt passenger cars, stagecoaches, houses, wagons and laborers. The crew stayed at the Bartell Hotel in nearby Eugene and brought three 35 mm cameras with them from Los Angeles. On May 31, set construction began with the materials, and regular train service in Cottage Grove ceased until
3053-794: The film a "comic masterpiece" but denounced it for "promoting" the Lost Cause of the Confederacy . In 1954 the film entered the public domain in the United States because its claimant did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. In 1989, The General was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." It
3124-579: The film entered the public domain in the United States because its claimant did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. In 1989, the film was selected by the Library of Congress to be included in the first class of films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." After arriving in Marietta, Georgia , Western & Atlantic Railroad train engineer Johnnie Gray visits Annabelle Lee, one of
3195-471: The hijackers see that Johnnie is by himself. Johnnie stops the Texas and runs into the forest to hide. At nightfall, Johnnie climbs through the window of a house to steal food, but hides underneath a table when Union officers enter. He overhears their plan for a surprise attack and learns that the Rock River Bridge is essential for their supply trains. There, Johnny meets Annabelle, and they decide to steal back
3266-541: The inner workings of the National Irish Bank (NIB) head office and branch at College Green , Dublin. Traynor told Cahill that the bank regularly held more than IR£10 million in cash in the building. The plan was to abduct NIB CEO Jim Lacey, his wife and four children and take them to an isolated hiding place. There, they would be held with fellow gang member Jo Jo Kavanagh , acting as a "hostage", who would frighten Lacey into handing over every penny stored in
3337-407: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_General&oldid=1232173800 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Nicknames Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The General (1926 film) The General
3408-529: The lobby to promote it. It played at the Capitol for one week, making $ 50,992, considered average box-office. With a final budget of $ 750,000, it made $ 474,264 in the US. On its initial release, the film largely failed to please the critics. Variety reported of a theater in which it played, "After four weeks of record business with Flesh and the Devil, [the theater] looks as though it were virtually going to starve to death this week." It went on to say The General
3479-534: The nickname [ edit ] Martin Cahill (1949-1994), Dublin criminal Sherman Douglas (born 1966), American retired National Basketball Association player Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), French statesman and general Horace Grant (born 1965), American retired National Basketball Association player Les Keiter , American newscaster and sports director Bob Knight (1940-2023), American college basketball coach and TV analyst Mark Lee (Australian rules footballer) (born 1959), Richmond ruckman of
3550-618: The notorious Dunne gang in Crumlin to rob security vans conveying cash from banks. In 1978, Dublin Corporation began preparing to demolish Hollyfield Buildings . Cahill, then serving a four-year suspended prison sentence, fought through the courts to prevent his neighbourhood's destruction. Even after the tenements were demolished, he continued to live in a pitched tent on the site. Finally, Lord Mayor of Dublin Ben Briscoe paid
3621-520: The part and purchased them for the production. He later bought a third locomotive in Oregon to portray the Texas for the purpose of using it in the iconic bridge collapse stunt. Producer Joseph Schenck was excited about the film and gave Keaton a budget of $ 400,000. Keaton spent weeks working on the script and preparing for elaborate pyrotechnical shots. He also grew his hair long for the film. He hired Sennett Bathing Beauties actress Marion Mack for
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#17327720605723692-779: The president of the National Film Registry offered the master print of the movie for production of the DVD . It is currently in production, and a worldwide tour is planned to accompany the DVD release. Martin Cahill Martin Cahill (23 May 1949 – 18 August 1994) was an Irish crime boss from Dublin . He masterminded a series of burglaries and armed robberies. He was shot and killed while out on bail for kidnapping charges. The Provisional Irish Republican Army took responsibility for Cahill's murder but no one
3763-415: The publication of Paul Williams ' The General , which claims to have insights from Garda cold case investigators who were still looking into Cahill's murder. Reputedly, two of Cahill's underlings, John Gilligan and John Traynor , had put together a massive hashish trafficking ring while paying protection money to the IRA and INLA. When Cahill allegedly tried to also extort protection money from them,
3834-464: The river, Confederate fire drives them back. Afterward, Johnnie returns to his locomotive to find the Union officer whom he had knocked out in escaping earlier has now regained consciousness. He takes the officer prisoner and is spotted by the Confederate general. As a reward for his bravery, he is commissioned a lieutenant and given the captured officer's sword. Returning to The General with Annabelle, he tries to kiss her, but has to repeatedly return
3905-401: The salutes of troops walking past. Johnnie finally uses his left hand to embrace Annabelle while using his right to salute passing soldiers. In early 1926, Keaton's collaborator Clyde Bruckman told him about William Pittenger 's 1889 memoir The Great Locomotive Chase about the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase . Keaton was a huge fan of trains and had read the book. Although it was written from
3976-463: The second of twelve surviving children of Patrick Cahill, a lighthouse-keeper, and Agnes Sheehan. By the time he was in school, Martin and his older brother John were stealing food to supplement the family's income. In 1960, the family was moved to Captain's Road, Crumlin , as part of the Dublin slum clearances . Martin was sent to a Christian Brothers School (CBS) on the same road where he lived but
4047-487: The sight of men being killed in battle." There was a favourable review in the Brooklyn Eagle . In 1963, Keaton said, "I was more proud of that picture than any I ever made. Because I took an actual happening out of the...history books, and I told the story in detail too." Following changes in taste and critical reevaluation of Keaton's work, later audiences and critics have come to agree with him, and The General
4118-439: The smoke in late August and production resumed. Shooting concluded on September 18. Keaton had shot 200,000 feet of film and began a lengthy editing process for a late December release date. Keaton performed many dangerous physical stunts on and around the moving train, including jumping from the engine to a tender to a boxcar , and running along the roofs of the railcars. One of the most dangerous stunts involved him pulling
4189-607: The stolen Vermeer paintings from Russborough House to the UVF Mid-Ulster Brigade led by Billy Wright , alias "King Rat". The Mid-Ulster Brigade then fenced the paintings for money, which they used to fund arms trafficking from South Africa under apartheid . This act allegedly sealed Cahill's fate, and put him at the top of an IRA hit list. In a later statement, the IRA said that it was Cahill's "involvement with and assistance to pro-British death squads which forced us to act". Another theory surfaced after
4260-489: The train. As day breaks, Johnnie and Annabelle find themselves near a railway station where Union soldiers and equipment are being organized for the attack. Seeing The General, Johnnie devises a plan to warn the South. After sneaking Annabelle onto a boxcar, Johnnie steals his engine back. Two Union trains, including the Texas, set out after the pair, while the Union attack is launched. Fending off his pursuers, Johnnie starts
4331-683: The two loves of his life, the other being his locomotive, The General . News arrives that the American Civil War has broken out, and Annabelle's brother and father rush to enlist in the Confederate Army . To please Annabelle, Johnnie hurries to be first in line to enlist, but is rejected because he is more valuable as an engineer, although he is not told that reason. On leaving, he runs into Annabelle's father and brother, who beckon to him to join them in line, but he walks away, leading them to believe that he does not want to enlist. Annabelle decides that she will not speak to Johnnie again until he
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#17327720605724402-406: The wreckage in the riverbed. The locomotive became a minor tourist attraction for nearly twenty years, until it was salvaged in 1944–45 for scrap during World War II. Another fire broke out during the filming of a large fight scene, which not only cost the production $ 50,000, but also forced Keaton and the crew to return to Los Angeles on August 6 due to excessive smoke. Heavy rains finally cleared
4473-406: Was "far from funny" and that it was "a flop." The New York Times reviewer, Mordaunt Hall , stated: "The production itself is singularly well mounted, but the fun is not exactly plentiful," and "This is by no means so good as Mr. Keaton's previous efforts." The Los Angeles Times reported that the picture was "neither straight comedy nor is it altogether thrilling drama"..."drags terribly with
4544-470: Was also involved in stealing some of the world's most valuable paintings from Russborough House (1986) and extorting restaurants and hot dog vendors in Dublin's nightclub district. Fearing the increasing role that forensic science could play in detecting his robberies, in May 1982 Cahill had a bomb placed under the car of chief forensic scientist, James O'Donovan , partly disabling him. In February 1988,
4615-448: Was convicted of supplying heroin in the 1980s. In 1984, Cahill had bought his growing family a house on the Cowper Downs development, on the southside of Dublin, paying IR£80,000 cash despite having no paid formal employment since he left his first and only job in 1969. On 1 May 2005, under an agreement with his widow Frances, the CAB seized and subsequently sold the property. Cahill was
4686-485: Was ever arrested or formally charged. The media referred to him by the sobriquet "The General". The name was also used by the media to discuss Cahill's activities while avoiding legal problems with libel. Cahill took particular care to hide his face from the media — he would spread the fingers of one hand and cover his face. He was born in a slum district in Grenville Street in Dublin 's north inner city,
4757-419: Was lighthearted, and every Sunday the cast and crew played baseball with local residents, who often said that Keaton could have been a professional player. According to a United Artists press release at the time, the film had 3,000 people on its payroll and cost $ 400 an hour to make. Entertainment trade papers reported rumors that the film's budget had grown to between $ 500,000 and $ 1 million, and that Keaton
4828-420: Was out of control, building real bridges and having dams constructed to change the depths of rivers. Producer Schenck was angry at Keaton over the growing costs. There were also numerous on-set accidents that contributed to the growing budget. This included Keaton being knocked unconscious, an assistant director being shot in the face with a blank cartridge, a train wheel running over a brakeman's foot, resulting in
4899-534: Was painted on a building in Cottage Grove, Oregon commemorating the film. David Thomson has speculated it is "the only memorial in the United States to Buster Keaton." U.S. film distributor Kino International released the film on Blu-ray Disc in November 2009, the first American release of a silent feature film for the high-definition video medium. The Blu-ray edition replicates the extra features of Kino's 2008 "The Ultimate 2-Disc Edition" on DVD, including
4970-562: Was soon playing truant and committing frequent burglaries with his brothers. At 15, he attempted to join the Royal Navy , but was rejected, allegedly after offering to break into houses for them and because he had a criminal record. At age 16, he was convicted of two burglaries and sentenced to an industrial school run by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate at Daingean , County Offaly . After his release, he met and married Frances Lawless,
5041-710: Was the Registry's initial year, some of the other films chosen were The Best Years of Our Lives , Casablanca , Citizen Kane , Gone with the Wind , Singin' in the Rain , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Star Wars , Sunset Boulevard , and The Wizard of Oz . In the decennial Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films ever made , international critics ranked The General #8 in 1972 and #10 in 1982. It ranked #34 in critic's poll in 2012 and 75th in
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