Steamboat Bill Jr.

(1928)

71 minutes.

Film / Comedy / Drama / Silent 

Directed by Charles Reisner

Cast: Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence and Marion Byron

In the riverside town of River Junction, Captain William Canfield has an old steamship and disputes the passengers with the powerful banker John James King, who has a brandy new passenger vessel. William is informed that his unknown son William Canfield Jr. will arrive by train from Boston to visit him. When Willie arrives, William trains him to work with him in his ship. However, Willie meets his friend Kitty King, the daughter of James King, and they date each other, against the will of their fathers. When a hurricane reaches River Junction, Willie rescues his father and his future father-in-law from the river.