Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton's 1926 silent film stars Keaton as Johnnie, a train engineer who tries to enlist in the Confederate Army at the beginning of the Civil War but is told to remain in his current job because of its value to the war effort. He is spurned by his fiancé, who thinks he avoided enlisting, and Johnnie must save her and his beloved train when the two are taken by Union soldiers.
The film was not initially well-received, with the New York Times calling it "by no means so good as Mr. Keaton's previous efforts."
However, film critic Roger Ebert named it one of the 10 best films of all time (a list ranked alphabetically, not numerically).
