-
Saturday, Sep 23, 2017
4 PM (69 mins)
Buy Tickets
BAMPFA
SUBJECTS
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Digital Restoration
Recommended for ages 7 & up
-
Live MusicOn piano
Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron, Tom Lewis,
The charming Mississippi River setting (actually filmed along the Sacramento Delta) is but one of Steamboat Bill, Jr.’s many pleasures. The film seems to have a direct line to Buster Keaton’s youth and soul in the tale of a sensitive lad trying to figure out the mettle of manhood in his overbearing dad. The climax is one of Keaton’s most dangerous and carefully planned stunts: a wall comes crashing down on him but he passes, untouched, through an open window. Keaton was the true he-man among matinee idols—the scene was done unfaked, with a real wall.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Carl Harbaugh
Cinematographer
- J. Devereux Jennings
- Bert Haines
Language
- English
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- Silent
- 69 mins
Source
- Kino Lorber
CINEFILES
CineFiles is an online database of BAMPFA's extensive collection of documentation covering world cinema, past and present.
View Steamboat Bill, Jr. documents
Steamboat Bill Jr. (review), Reader (Chicago, Ill.), J. R. Jones, 2005
Buster Keaton forever: Keaton centennial: 1895-1995 (program note), Pacific Film Archive, Judy Bloch, 1995
Keaton 100 (program note), Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group, Sam Harkness, 1995
Forever Buster: Buster Keaton centennial tribute (program note), Castro Theatre, 1995
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (program note), Wellington Film Festival, 1993
Chaplin redux (article), American Film, Charles Silver, 1984
Critic's choice (review), Reader (Los Angeles, Calif.), Dan Sallitt, 1980
Keaton, the man who wouldn't lie down -- excerpt (book excerpt), Charles Scribner's Sons, Tom Dardis, 1979
Observations on Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr. (article), Sight and Sound, E. Rubinstein, 1975
A marvelous silent Keaton film (review), 1969
Displaying 10 of 23 publicly available documents.
