Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Silent)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 26, 1999
- Originally Released: 1928
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Buster Keaton & Ernest Torrence | |
Performer: | Tom McGuire, Tom Lewis & Marion Byron | |
Directed by | Charles Reisner | |
Director of Photography: | Bert Haines & Devereaux Jennings |
Entertainment Reviews:
Description by OLDIES.com:
Set on the Mississippi River, Steamboat Bill, Jr. follows the adventures of a spoiled young man who is forced by his crusty father (Ernest Torrence) to learn riverboating. Over the course of the narrative, the scale of comedy gradually expands, from small-scale, nostalgic humor (as when Bill Sr. outfits his son with a new wardrobe) to some of the most elaborate sight gags of Keaton's career. Junior's attempts to single-handedly pilot the rag-tag "Stonewall Jackson" recall the mechanical brilliance of The General and The Navigator, but the films crowning achievement is its hurricane climax. Highlighted by remarkable special effects (including the destruction of full-size structures), it includes the legendary stunt in which the front of a building collapses over Junior, who passes unharmed through an open window.
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Based on 21623 ratings.
This is my favorite Buster Keaton Movie. While it may not strike you as an amazing film at first, hang on: just wait until the wind picks up. The scene where a house falls apart in front of him and barely misses crushing him is exactly what it appears to be. He literally risked his life to get that shot. And the athletic performance that follows wears me out just watching it.
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- UPC: 738329013523
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