Willie Canfield is the smaller than
expected son of a rough steamboat captain. Steamboat Bill Canfield runs a very worn out steamboat on the
river by River Junction, Mississippi.
He meets his son at the train from Boston with his engineer, he is
looking for a big rough guy with a white carnation in his jacket lapel. At first he can’t find him but they see
the luggage tag and his son is not at all a rough guy. Bill starts to try to make a “man” out
of his son but he’s having trouble on the river with the wealthy owner of a
fancy new boat, the King.
This is funny and many
seemingly impossible things happen in this film, some were dangerous and Keaton could've been killed. I don’t know how many people fall into the river and how man
times Keaton falls down. A huge
cyclone comes though the town causing destruction in its paths and many amazing
sights. This seems long and you
wonder how anyone would be able to play the music accompaniment for this length of time in a theater. 3 ½* (I liked this movie)
111 min, Comedy directed by Charles “Chuck” Riesner
with Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis, Tom McGuire, Marion Byron, Joe
Keaton.
Note:
Blockbuster 4 ½*, 7.9 out of 10, 100% critic 91% audience on Rotten
Tomatoes.
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