Take my word for it, Mr.Emmerich, this is a ripe plum ready to fall...Perhaps you know my reputation.I""ve engineered some very big things.The take of a million dollars worth of jewels will amount to about a half-million dollars "in actual cash" after he rocks are fenced, according to the knowledgeable Emmerich ("because you know as well as I do that in no case will a fence give you more han fifty percent").The stuffy, long-time chair of the perfume company""s board, arch-capitalist Monsieur Adolph Giron (C.All of a sudden, I""m ahead like $600, $700.I""m really winnin"".All of a sudden, some kid walks in, and the kid yells that the bulls are comin"", right? The cops are comin""." 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.What""ll your review say?Second critic: I like it too.So, er, I guess I""ll pan it.First critic: Oh.(He laughs.) Well, that""s logical.Second critic: My publisher resents Cohan impersonating the president of the United States.Says our young readers dream of being president.First critic: ""I""d rather be right than be president..."" Cohan may find out he isn""t either one.The camera moves through the outer door and into the dressing room of George M.Cohan - he is being congratulated backstage by well-wishers and his wife Mary (17 year old Joan Leslie) just following his performance, but he is anxious about his impersonation of the president:Cohan: Well, that""s all very well, but we""re still reading on dangerous ground.