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
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
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
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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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.
[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!
[the train is about to pull into Big Shanty]
James J. Andrews: Have a good breakfast, Mr. Fuller. And don't you worry about any deserters, I'll *take care* of your train.
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Facts about
It was raining on the day of the real chase (this is simply a deviation from the source material and a fact the filmmakers were likely aware of, which is why this is not listed as a goof).
William Campbell is depicted in the film as a Union soldier. In real history, Campbell was the only civilian beside Andrews to participate in the raid; his character in the film is also quite different than his real life character.
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