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Steamboat Bill, Jr. 720p
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Following through on a promise to his mother, William Canning Jr. goes to River Junction to meet his father who has not seen him since he was a child. The younger Canning isn't quite what the elder was expecting but the old man has bigger problems. He's being put out of business by J.J. King, who not only owns the local hotel and bank, but has recently introduced a new paddle wheel steamer that puts Cannings older boat, the Stonewall Jackson, to shame. Bill Jr. and Kitty King take a liking to each other much to the dismay of both of their fathers. When a fierce storm hits River Junction, Bill Jr. is forced to save Kitty, her father and his father.
Steamboat Bill is excited that his son (Steamboat Bill Jr.) is coming to visit him. When he does, he tries to turn him into a proper person for working on the boats, while his son resists. Meanwhile, Kitty, a girl that he knows from school in Boston, spots him and introduces him to her father, a rival of Steamboat Bill. He tries to be alone with her, but gets caught several times, and is given a ticket back to Boston. Steamboat Bill gets arrested for unruly conduct (on a condemnation notice of his boat) and it's up to Bill Jr. to rescue his dad - in the middle of a cyclone storm.
As usual, Buster Keaton did his best to use his physical abilities to serve his movie's plot. Seeing him arriving from Boston in the first place is so funny, even though there always is a strong tragic feeling about his stories (father & son bounds, puritanism...) but he manages to get out of it easily with a 'pirouette'. So romantic, so much fun ! I can never decide myself between C. Chaplin & Buster, but the least is pretty hot and seems more subtle than the other who is still acting, at the same period (late twenties) like a mime. Anyway, the acting is great and the settings & special effects especially succeed in getting us into the action!
Steamboat Bill, Jr. follows the likes of William Canfield, Sr. (Ernest Torrence), the owner and captain of a dilapidated boat he is itching to get back on the water. Canfield's only skeleton in his closet is that he has not seen his son since he was an infant, but is anxiously awaiting his return from college, hoping that his presumably-manly son will be able to help him construct an exceptional river-ride to compete with his businessman next door John King (Tom McGuire), who has just bought a luxurious new boat for himself. The arrival of Canfield's son is disappointing to him as his son turns out to be a scrawny, awkward kid equipped with a pencil mustache, a ukulele, and a beret. Also to his dismay is the fact that Canfield's kid is in love with Kitty King (Marion Byron), the daughter of John. Now, Canfield Sr. must find a way to get his wimpy son to help in out in his greatest time of need when it comes to fixing his boat, but also assisting him in weather a violent cyclone that's been a-brewing.
Canfield Jr. is played by Buster Keaton, who really needs no introduction. Keaton is a marvelous actor, who can go from side-splitting comic relief to playing deeply tragic and emotionally-affecting in no time. With Steamboat Bill, Jr., he gives another performance that makes him worthy of placement amongst comedy greats of this era, from The Three Stooges, to Charlie Chaplin, to Harold Lloyd, to the Marx Brothers, to Laurel and Hardy, etc. He's an actor with impeccable timing and wit, and him playing a scrawny but not entirely hopeless underdog is a role that he fits perfectly.
Keaton also isn't shy when it comes to finding ways to incorporate breakneck physical comedy into the picture. Consider the scene when Canfield Jr. is being pushed back and forth between his dad's boat and King's boat, each time running a bit more of a risk of falling into the small little crevasse of water between the two boats. The scene is hilarious and keeps one on the edge as if watching an argument taking place between two people right alongside a swimming pool. You know something is coming and the effect is had on you is surprisingly very stimulating.
Another memorable scene possibly stands as Keaton's most famous scene of his career, taking place during the destructive cyclone. Keaton's Canfield Jr. is position in front of a home when the front wall of his house falls, ostensibly about the crush him, until we see that Canfield Jr. is in the setup's only safe position, which is where the wall's window is placed. This scene was famously unrehearsed, due to Keaton's trust of his special effects team and his lack of interest in wasting a perfectly good wall.
Directed by Charles Reisner, the man responsible for bringing us Chaplin's The Kid just a few years prior, Steamboat Bill, Jr. is also regarded as one of Keaton's best pieces of work, although initially a box office bomb and subject to a critical divide. Because Keaton was independently financing all of his films up until this point, Steamboat Bill, Jr.'s failure was a crushing blow to the director's ego and pocketbook, which tempted him to sign on with MGM to get a heavy studio salary along with more exposure and stronger odds on a successful box office performance. Despite the warnings from his contemporaries and good friends such as Chaplin and Lloyd, Keaton, out of financial desperation, signed on with MGM in a move he'd later regard as one of the worst decisions of his life, as his creative control and personal say in projects was hugely compromised. Viewing Steamboat Bill, Jr. now is a sweet experience, but one can't help but shake their head in sadness for what it entailed for its star, who probably couldn't foresee the legacy he would leave on cinema as a whole.
Starring: Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuire, and Marion Byron. Directed by: Charles Reisner.
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