The General - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  short kissing scenes without further action

  Nudity: None

  some kiss.

• Violence

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  Occasional mild slapstick violence, such as a young man being kicked out the door, a man falling off a derailing handcar, a man falling off a bicycle, and people being soaked by massive gushes of water. Played for laughs.

  Some men are knocked unconscious by blows to the head.

  A cannon is fired at a train with several men aboard.

  The main character jokingly grabs a young woman by the throat as if to strangle her in frustration.

  A mildly intense Civil War battle is fought at the end.

  In a slapstick, bloodless scene, three men are shot dead and another is accidentally killed by a flying sword blade.

  The main character nearly shoots himself in the foot.

• Profanity

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  This is a silent movie, there are no profane words spoken.

• Intense Scenes

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  considering it includes war, there are several fight scenes

  Some viewers may be upset that the main characters are working for the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

  A young woman is kidnapped, tied up, and passed from one car to another aboard a speeding train.

  Many risky scenes of men clambering about aboard speeding trains, including a man performing a very dangerous stunt while riding atop the cowcatcher.

  The main character nearly falls from a moving train while being threatened by a cannon.

  A young woman is hidden in a bag and while hidden there subject to a lot of apparent (though unintentional) very rough treatment.

  A young couple are caught in the middle of heavy foot and horse traffic, in apparent danger of being run down.

  A dam breaks, threatening many men in a river.