Steamboat Bill, Jr.
The Laugh Special of the Age. See It.
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Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Silent)
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 24, 2012
- Originally Released: 1928
- Label: American Pop Classics
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: 5/5 --
If your faith in humanity needs a little pick-me-up, there's no better place to start.
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Time Out
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)
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
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
Rating: 4/5 --
Buster Keaton's final independent film is one of his finest achievements, something of a greatest hits package in its refinement of old routines.
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Total Film
Chaplin's comic personality started from English class-consciousness; Keaton's was American and free.
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Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/4 --
It may not match Keaton's The General in most respects, but it surpasses it in the number of belly laughs generated.
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Film Frenzy
Description by OLDIES.com:
Buster Keaton plays the whimpy son of 'Steamboat Bill' Canfield, a salty tugboat captain, in this silent classic. The younger Bill spends most of his time trying to live up to his father's tough expectations. Then, to make matters worse, he falls in love with the daughter of the old man's fiercest rival--only to end up coming to everyone's rescue in the movie's heroic ending. Contains one of the most famous (and dangerous) scenes in silent film history--that of Keaton escaping the crush of a collapsing building when he happens to stand in the same exact spot as the window frame.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 71,500
- UPC: 874757019697
- Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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