Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

Sunday, August 9 at 1:30 PM
Michigan

Film | Silent/Comedy | NR | 1h 11m | 1928

Presented with live accompaniment from Stephen Warner on the Barton Organ.

Screening is free and open to the public, with a suggested $5 donation to support the preservation of the historic Barton Organ. You can add a $5 donation when reserving your free RSVP ticket.

In this silent comedy, college boy William Canfield Jr. (Buster Keaton) reunites with his boat captain father in a Mississippi River town. Though he's flummoxed by Willie's citified appearance, the elder Canfield seems to have found an ally to help him compete with fellow riverboat owner John James King (Tom McGuire). Willie finds himself falling for King's daughter, Mary (Marion Byron), but he has more pressing concerns when the weather turns bad and his father in arrested.