Jon Mirsalis on Piano. Another bit of Americana, this time on the Mississippi River (though filming was done in a "southern town" built on the Sacramento River delta), Steamboat Bill, Jr. finds Buster separated from his sweetheart by a bitter rivalry between two riverboat owners. Sarris and Allen call this one "Keaton's most entertaining balance of the instinctual and the cerebral in a tale of father worship, young love, abject humiliation, and heroic redemption." The climax is the famous cyclone sequence, one of Keaton's most dangerous and carefully planned stunts. When our hero, in a hospital bed, finds that the building in which he has languished, indeed, the whole town, has flown away, he runs to stand in the street. When a wall comes crashing down on him, he passes, untouched, through an open window. Keaton was the true he-man among matinee idols; the scene was done unfaked, the wall, a real wall.