KidFest
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
FREE and open to the public!
No table reservations can be made for this event.
90th Anniversary!
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).
USA, 1928, 70 minutes, Not Rated, Directed by Buster Keaton & Charles Reisner
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