
Modern Times(1936)
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..



Buster Keaton
William 'Willie' Canfield Jr.

Tom McGuire
John James 'J.J.' King

Ernest Torrence
William 'Steamboat Bill' Canfield Sr.
Tom Lewis
First and Last Mate Tom Carter

Marion Byron
Kitty King
James T. Mack
Minister (uncredited)
Ford West
Barber (uncredited)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. is a comedy, romance film released in 1928 exploring themes of wind, river, girlfriend, jail, steamboat, black and white. Directed by Charles Reisner, it stars Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence. The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.
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