Title: Steamboat Bill Jr. /
Authors: Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966; Harbaugh, Carl, 1886-1960.; Riesner, Charles, 1887-1962,; McGuire, Tom, -1954.; Torrence, Ernest, 1878-1933,; Byron, Marion, 1911-1985,; Schenk, Joseph M., 1877-1961,; Buster Keaton Productions.
Publisher: Buster Keaton Productions,
Year: 1928
Subjects: Self-preservation Drama.; Man-woman relationships Drama; Steamboats Drama.
Abstract: An effete student arrives home in the middle of a power struggle between his steamboat captain father and a competitor. His father's business competitor, J.J. King with his modernized river packet, is trying to drive Steamboat Bill out of River Junction. In the course of the film, Keaton wins both the decisive boat race, and the hand of the daughter of his rival. Buster Keaton's comic timing is once again impeccable; the film contains the famous sequence where a house lifted into the sky by a cyclone lands on top of him. All the forces of nature are arrayed against Keaton in this film, yet he merely dances around them, surviving all disasters. The director Luis Bunuel said of Buster Keaton: "Buster's face is as unassuming as a bottle, although his clear round pupils reflect his aseptic soul....Can greater heights of cinematic virtue be reached?"