The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) | |
| Director(s) | Francis D. Lyon |
| Producer(s) | Lawrence Edward Watkin, Walt Disney (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, War |
| Top Topics | Civil War, Disney, True Story (based on) |
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The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Francis D. Lyon and produced by Walt Disney and Lawrence Edward Watkin.
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History, Hollywood, and a Famous Train: THE GENERAL and THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE (3)
By Jennifer Garlen on Sep 29, 2014 From Virtual ViragoIn The General (1926), Buster Keaton plays a Confederate train engineer who doggedly pursues his beloved locomotive when Yankees make off with it. Thirty years later, The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) tells basically the same story, this time with Jeffrey Hunter as the Southern engineer and Fess Par... Read full article
History, Hollywood, and a Famous Train: THE GENERAL and THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE (1)
By Jennifer Garlen on Sep 29, 2014 From Virtual ViragoIn The General (1926), Buster Keaton plays a Confederate train engineer who doggedly pursues his beloved locomotive when Yankees make off with it. Thirty years later, The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) tells basically the same story, this time with Jeffrey Hunter as the Southern engineer and Fess Par... Read full article
History, Hollywood, and a Famous Train: THE GENERAL and THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE (2)
By Jennifer Garlen on Sep 29, 2014 From Virtual ViragoIn The General (1926), Buster Keaton plays a Confederate train engineer who doggedly pursues his beloved locomotive when Yankees make off with it. Thirty years later, The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) tells basically the same story, this time with Jeffrey Hunter as the Southern engineer and Fess Par... Read full article
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Quotes from
James J. Andrews: Have a good breakfast, Mr. Fuller. And don't you worry about any deserters, I'll *take care* of your train.
[the raiders see Andrews successfully talking some repairmen into giving their tools to them]
William Pittenger: I don't see why we have to take the South: if Andrews *asked* for it, they'd *give* it to him!
William Campbell: What do we tell the Johnny Rebs when they ask who we are and where we're from?
James J. Andrews: Tell them you're Kentuckians escaping the rule of the Yankees to join a Southern Regiment. If they press you closely, tell 'em you hail from Fleming County, Kentucky. I'm from Flemingsburg myself. No man from that county has ever joined the Southern army... As for you, Mr. Buffum, it might be wiser if you didn't speak at all. I never met a Kentuckian so plainly from Massachusetts.
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The locomotive the plays The General in the film (#25 William Mason) is the same locomotive used as The Wanderer in Wild Wild West.
Only thirteen pieces of equipment were actually used: two full-sized locomotives, one yard engine, three passenger cars, two iron box cars, and five wooden box cars that were built specifically to be destroyed in the film. The various pieces of equipment wore different numbers on different trains throughout the movie.
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