STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1928
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
• Plot: The last of the independent features made in the prime of Buster Keaton's career, STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. is a large-scale follow-up to The General, substituting a Mississippi paddlewheel for the locomotive, and replacing the spectacle of the Civil War with a catastrophic hurricane. Keaton stars as William Canfield, Jr., a Boston collegian who returns to his deep-southern roots to reunite with his father, a crusty riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence) who is engaged in a bitter rivalry with a riverboat king—coincidentally, the father of Willie's sweetheart (Marion Byron).; ; Keaton's athleticism and gift for inventive visual humor are in top form, and the cyclone that devastates a town (and sends houses literally crashing down around him) is perhaps the most ambitious, awe-inspiring and hilarious slapstick sequence ever created.; ; In the silent era, it was common practice for filmmakers to create two separate negatives of their films, each comprised of differing takes and camera angles. This definitive Blu-ray editions contains both versions of STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.—the Buster Keaton Estate version and the Killiam Shows Archive version—each mastered from archival 35mm materials.
• Cast: Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis, Marion Byron, James T. Mack, Charles Reisner, Carl Harbaugh
• Director: Charles Reisner
• Runtime: 1:10
• Company: Buster Keaton Productions, Inc., Douris UK, Biograph, Kino International
• Media Format: Movie