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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, before all of his creative control was taken away by the studio. j3i1q
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 1911 song, "Steamboat Bill".
Many modern audiences may be most familiar with the film for its inspiring the title of Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie (1928), released six months later and considered the debut of Mickey Mouse.
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Copyright Info: This movie is in the public domain and is legally available for free on YouTube.