Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Duration: 70

Genre: Action Comedy Drama

Year Published: 1928

Creator: Blackhawk

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: silent

Description: Steamboat Bill, Sr.'s long lost son, Willie visits his father in this comedy about riverboat rivalry on the Mississippi. Director, Charles F. Reisner. Starring Buster Keaton.

Complete Record: , A foppish student returns to his father's old Mississippi riverboat, and after many misadventures, marries the daughter of his father's rival. (Does not circulate) , Features Buster Keaton as the returning son of a riverboat captain. Tells how the father is disappointed in the son when he comes back as a seemingly comical character and therefore attempts to "make a man" out of him while keeping him away from his rival's daughter. Shows that when the town is hit by a tornado the son proves to be a hero and his father approves of him and his choice of the girl., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.