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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
description written by member Jessica:
Buster Keaton plays the Jr. Bill who is reunited with his father for
the first time since his childhood. However, he dresses and acts not
in accordance with his father's wishes and falls in love with his
father's rival's daughter (Marion Byron). The two young lovers try to
find their way back to one another despite jail and windstorms.
Featuring some of Keaton's most remarkable physical comedy.
| Release Date: | May 20th, 1928 |
| Running Time: | 71 minutes |
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| Steamboat Bill, Jr. Movie Review by Movie Addict (5/12/2009) |
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Big and rough Steamboat Bill (Ernest Torrence) was a mite disappointed when seeing his son (Buster Keaton) for the first time. He could hardly believe it was his son. Then he finds he is friends with the daughter (Marion Byron in the first of her 43 films) of his mortal enemy (Tom McGuire), and it really gets good.
Keaton...
(complete Steamboat Bill, Jr. review by Movie Addict)
A Buster Keaton masterpiece. He challenges gravity and the confines of film in a mind-bending performance for the ages. He runs against the wind while real-sized buildings blow past him, he has a bit with a baguette that kills me everytime, he walks a plank while the ships holding it up are moving apart, he keeps losing...
(complete Steamboat Bill, Jr. review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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