Steamboat Bill, Jr.

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Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Release Year: 1928
Country: USA
Runtime: 71
Rating: 7.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Charles Reisner Buster Keaton
Sound: Silent
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The Laugh Special of the Age. See It.

Writing by: Carl Harbaugh - story

Produced by: Joseph M. Schenck - executive producer

Cast: Buster Keaton - William Canfield Jr.
Tom McGuire - John James King
Ernest Torrence - William Steamboat Bill Canfield Sr.
Tom Lewis - Tom Carter, first mate
Marion Byron - Kitty King (credit only)

Music: Richard Yuen
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Plot Outline: The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his fathers crew.
Plot: Willie is the effete son of riverboat captain "Steamboat Bill" coming to see his dad after years of separation. Bill tries to turn his son into a man. When his father is arrested, Willie decides to get him out of jail.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Best Dog ... Cheetah

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: During the final cyclone sequence, a cable pulling down the entire front of a building is clearly visible.

Trivia: There are 5 entries in the trivia list - like these:
The stunt where the wall falls on Buster Keaton was performed with an actual full-weight wall. Half the crew walked off the set rather than participate in a stunt that would have killed Keaton if he had been slightly off position.
The hat that Buster Keaton quickly removes from his head and hands back to the clerk with a frown is Keatons own trademark porkpie hat.
The movie was originally meant to incorporate a large flood as the disaster that hits the town. However, due to a real Mississippi flood and bickering amongst the producers, the flood plot was changed to a "cyclone."