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Film · United Artists · 1926

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The General

44Leave it.

The engine work is a joy, and he still rides that train with the Confederacy.

Take controlThis scores 44. The General cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

People kept this one after the crowd of 1926 walked past it. Buster Keaton is a railroad engineer who loves his engine and a girl. The Union steals the engine. He steals it back. United Artists. A house can watch it. It failed that year. The work is the machine, and I did laugh, because the train is the joke and the job.

The story is a Confederate raid. Say whose side the train is on. He rides with the Confederacy. I won't slide that under the word classic and hope the room misses it. A house can watch the chase if someone says the side out loud first. Skill with an engine is not a reason to pretend the raid was only a gag.

Journal

Keep The General in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 44. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

South Pacific

56 instead of 44

South Pacific is still a war film, and it scores 56 instead of 44. What you gain is republic: A war base is a public.

The eight

8
Industry
He is a railroad engineer, and the work that matters is the engine.
3
Household
He loves an engine and a girl, and neither one is a household yet.
2
Piety
He rides a Confederate raid, and the film never questions that side.
7
Courage
He goes after the stolen engine and risks himself to bring it back.
2
Republic
The train serves a Confederate raid, not a neighbor the law would free.
6
Temperance
The joke is the machine and the chase, not a hunger the film keeps feeding.
4
Truth
The chase is plain, and the side of the train is a Confederate raid.
3
Stewardship
People kept a machine comedy that rides with the Confederacy after it flopped.

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Film · Prime Video · 1951

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Alice in Wonderland

44Leave it.

Nonsense is funny until it is a government. She comes back. Good.

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The review

Wonderland is a place where authority is a temper: a queen who executes, a tea party that never ends, a caterpillar who sneers. Alice is polite and then she is done. The film's best moment is her refusal to take the queen's court as a real court. Curiosity brought her in. Judgment takes her out.

A child can enjoy the jokes. Say that the jokes are not a model of how a house or a school should run. A world that changes the rules to watch you stumble is not a wonder. It is a bully with a teapot.

Journal

Keep Alice in Wonderland in the record.