The General: Pure visual ingenuity

This is the type of film, to show the wonders one can do with simple physical/circumstantial comedy. But beyond just inducing laughs, it is able to depict the intensity of the American civil war.

Renders one speechless

The General, by the silent era icon Buster Keaton, presents the most unusual issues, and then solves them in the most ingenious form imaginable. And in the end he sells it with his absolute composure at all times.

Furthermore, being the huge production it was, The General has no shortage of spectacular imagery, and some of the greatest practical effects in movie history. [...]