Steamboat Bill, Jr. is the story of a naive, college-educated young man who must prove himself to his father, a riverboat captain. This silent classic features the famous stunt where a cyclone blows down a wall on top of Keaton who passes, unharmed, through a precisely placed open window.
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Related links:
Roger Ebert: The Films of Buster Keaton
Reviews of Steamboat Bill, Jr.
AMC filmsite
Combustible Celluloid
DVD.net
Other silent flicks posted on EPW:
The Navigator | A Trip to the Moon | Faust | Sherlock Jr. | The Great Train Robbery | The Iron Mask