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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 Mississippi caused the studio to cancel Keaton’s plan.
13 de sept. de 2022 · Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) A steamboat captain receives a telegram informing him that his son who he has not seen for many years will be coming to visit. Eagerly expecting a strapping young lad who will help him compete with his arch-rival, he is disappointed with the effete progeny that instead shows up.
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 ...
8 de nov. de 2016 · Worth it for the storm sequence alone, which is staggering in its audacity, and Shakespearean in its execution. -- Dan Jardine, Cinemania
Steamboat Bill Jr. The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew. 143 IMDb 7.8 1 h 9 min 1928. X-Ray ALL.
31 de dic. de 2014 · United Artists. Steamboat Bill, Jr. is the story of a naive, college-educated dandy who must prove himself to his working-class father, a hot-headed riverboat captain, while courting the daughter of his father's rival, who threatens to put Steamboat Bill, Sr. and his paddle-wheeler out of business. Contact Information. www.k-otic.com. Addeddate.
13 de mar. de 2014 · In Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner, 1928) Buster Keaton, for his final independently produced feature, enjoyed a level of complete creative control (with no budgetary restrictions) afforded only a select few. This freedom had allowed Keaton such luxuries as filming a train crashing into a river from a burning bridge at the then astronomical sum of $42,000, causing his 1927 feature The ...
