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William Canfield (Ernest Torrence), who runs an old steamboat on the Misissippi, receives a visit from his son Bill jr
(Buster Keaton) from Boston for the first time in four years – and Bill jr proves to be a major disappointment for his dad,
an effeminate spoilt city boy who hasn’t done an hour of manual labor in his life. And what’s worse, he’s in love with Kitty
(Marion Byron), the daughter of Canfield’s biggest rival, J.J.King (Tom McGuire), who runs a luxury steamer about double
the size of Canfield’s and threatens to drive Canfield out of business. After merely one day, Canfield gets so fed up with his
son that he is ready to send him back to Boston, but then he is arrested on charges trumped up by King, and after all Bill jr
proves loyal enough to try and break his daddy out of jail – temporarily at least. Then a hurricane strikes destroying almost
the whole town,sinking King’s steamer and throwing the jail with dad in it into the water. And now it’s up to Bill to save his
father and protect Kitty – and he does so by taking sole control of his father’s steamer via an accomplished construction of
ropes. And ultimately, he succeeds not only in everything he has intended, but also saves King, facilitates the reconciliation
between him and his father, and gets married to Kitty (with both their dads’ approval) before the storm is over …
The only one of his films not directed by Buster Keaton himself (at least not officially) that is considered a masterpiece
by many of his fans – and justifiably so, as it has all the landmark elements: A stringent story that throws Buster into a
situation too big for him to handle (yet he does so anyhow), an orgy of large scale destruction, hair raising stunts (including
the famous scene in which a housefront falls on Keaton, and he is merely saved from being squashed by it by having the
façade’s window falling onto him – a gag that had already been on a much smaller scale in his short
review © by Mike Haberfelner
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