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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.
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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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