With some visionary foresight, Hunk convinced Vince to participate in the show: "You know, I got a spot for you in the show." Cobb offers his hand-shake, congratulating Deeds' "common-sense" and the scene just witnessed: "Lamb bites wolf.(He casts his speech away behind him.)But I am gonna tell you a story.It's a funny story so get ready to laugh....Get ready to bust your sides laughin', 'cause it's sure a funny story.It's about a hick.A hick like you, if you please.Yeah, like you.He grew up on the dirt roads and the gully washes of a farm.He knew what it was to get up before dawn and get feed and slop and milk before breakfast, and then set out before sunup and walk six miles to a one-room, slab-sided schoolhouse." BackgroundThe General(1927) is an imaginative masterpiece of dead-pan "Stone-Face" Buster Keaton comedy, generally regarded as one of the greatest of all silent comedies (and Keaton's own favorite) - and undoubtedly the best train film ever made.