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Steamboat Bill, Jr. is a 1928 silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton. Released by United Artists, the film is the final product of Keaton's independent production team and set of gag writers. The film was not a box-office success and became the last picture Keaton made for United Artists.
Steamboat Bill, Jr. is a 1928 comedy silent film featuring Buster Keaton.Steamboat Bill Jr (Cadet d'eau douce) est un film américain muet de Buster Keaton e...
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Steamboat Bill, Jr.: Directed by Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton. With Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis. The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.
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- Action, Comedy, Drama
- Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton
- 1928-05-20
Hold on everybody. It's a Hurricane of Laughs!The overly refined son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.Original title: Stea...
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- Cult Cinema Classics
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) was the last film Keaton made over which he had writing and directorial control. Set on the banks of the Mississippi (and filmed on the Sacramento River), the climactic set piece was originally conceived as a flood, and construction for the sequence was nearing completion when a devastating flood of the real ...
In this silent comedy, college boy William Canfield Jr. (Buster Keaton) reunites with his boat captain father in a Mississippi River town. Though he's flummoxed by Willie's citified appearance ...
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- Comedy, Action, Drama
Steamboat Bill Jr. is a slapstick comedy where the visual gags and the stunts (all made by Buster Keaton without any trick) are more important than the story. It is characterised by frequent camera movements making it possible to cover a wide field while remaining close to the characters.
