Not to be confused with: The General (1998)

Plot comparison:  Silent slapstick with Buster Keaton aboard American Civil War steam engine ‘The General,’ versus John Boorman's biopic of Oirish criminal Martin Cahill (Brendan Gleeson) – nicknamed, funnily enough, ‘The General’.

If they switched directors: In Boorman’s film, the Confederates are banjo-playing hillbillies using the train to find sissy Northeners to butt-fuck.  Keaton turns Cahill into a well-meaning but inept gangster whose bank robberies always result in perilous, rib-tickling stunts. 

Irksome To Whom?: Andy NcNab, no doubt disappointed that neither of these films is actually about, y’know, a general.