Steamboat Bill, Jr. (The Film Detective Restored Version)
The Laugh Special of the Age. See It.
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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Silent)
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 10 minutes
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: June 29, 2017
- Originally Released: 1928
- Label: Film Detective
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Buster Keaton & Ernest Torrence | |
Performer: | Tom McGuire, Tom Lewis & Marion Byron | |
Directed by | Charles Reisner | |
Director of Photography: | Bert Haines & Devereaux Jennings |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Buster Keaton's silent comedy Steamboat Bill, Jr. displays more inspired energy and inventiveness than pretty much everything else currently in cinemas combined.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 3.5/4 --
the story is just a set-up for the comedy, which Keaton executes with his trademark combination of perfectly timed derring-do and taciturn nonchalance
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 5/5 --
The ensuing farce involves miraculous physical comedy and stunt-work. Keaton makes it look easy.
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Guardian
Rating: 4/4 --
The extended rescue climax provides the heights of Steamboat Bill, Jr.'s ingenious choreography, but Keaton's brilliance as a performer shines just as brightly (if not more) in the simpler moments...[Blu-ray]
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Groucho Reviews
Keaton's most coherent feature-length comedies...can't stop playing with the immigrant nature of American identity: each of us is far from home, and the natives aren't friendly.
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The New York Review of Books
Chaplin's comic personality started from English class-consciousness; Keaton's was American and free.
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Sight and Sound
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Steamboat Bill, Jr. packs in more stunts in 70 minutes than most action franchises have in total, and does so with panache.
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Eye for Film
Description by OLDIES.com:
Buster Keaton plays the son of a steamboat captain in this classic comedy from the silent era. Regarded by many as one of Keatons best, he not only turns in a fine acting job as an effete young man trying to show his worth, but he also creates some of the greatest action sequences in the history of the movies. Our only advice is that you wait for the hurricane scene, and keep an eye on the falling building! Also starring Tom McGuire and Marion Byron, this production will have you rooting for Buster to save the day!
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- Sales Rank: 24,742
- UPC: 889290411846
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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