Generally Speaking

Buster Keaton's The General was on Turner Classic Movies recently. I pressed the info button and read "...this film has been called 'the last great comedy of the silent screen.'" Perhaps it has, but that's an odd way to describe it. Especially since Buster Keaton himself created at least two more great silent comedies (Steamboat Bill, Jr. and The Cameraman) before the silent era was over.