Description

Steamboat Bill Jr. is a 1928 feature-length comedy silent film featuring Buster Keaton. Released by United Artists, the film is the last product of Keaton’s independent production team and set of gag writers. It was not a box-office success and proved to be the last picture Keaton would make for United Artists. Keaton would end up moving to MGM where he would make one last film with his trademark style, The Cameraman (1928 film), before all of his creative control was taken away by the studio.

The director was Charles Reisner, the credited writer was Carl Harbaugh (although Keaton wrote the film and publicly called Harbaugh useless but “on the payroll”), and also featured Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron, and Tom Lewis.

The film was named after a popular Arthur Collins (singer) song, “Steamboat Bill”.

Cast

• Buster Keaton as William Canfield Jr.
• Ernest Torrence as William “Steamboat Bill” Canfield Sr.
• Marion Byron as Kitty King
• Tom McGuire (actor) as John James King
• Tom Lewis (actor) as Tom Carter
• James T. Mack as the Minister