Steamboat Bill Jr.

Steamboat Bill, Jr. is a 1928 featurelength comedy silent film featuring Buster Keaton. Released by United Artists, the film is the last product of Keatons independent production team and set of gag writers. It was not a boxoffice success and proved to be the last picture Keaton would make for United Artists. Keaton would end up moving to MGM where he would make one last film with his trademark style, The Cameraman, before all of his creative control was taken away by the studio.

William Steamboat Bill Canfield is the owner and captain of a paddle steamer that has seen better days. He eagerly awaits the arrival of his college student son, whom he has not seen since the lad was a baby. Expecting a big, husky man like himself to help him compete with businessman John James King and his brand new, luxurious riverboat, he is sorely disappointed with his slight, awkward offspring, who shows up with a pencil moustache, a ukulele and a beret. He becomes outraged when he discovers that his son and Kings daughter Kitty, also visiting her father, are in love. Both business rivals are determined to break up the relationship.When Canfields ship is condemned as unsafe, he accuses King of orchestrating it. He assaults his enemy and is put in jail. His son tries to free him by bringing him a loaf of bread with tools hidden inside, but his scheme is detected. The sheriff hits Canfield, Jr. on the head, sending him to the hospital. ........

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