Steamboat Bill Jr.: A silent comedy in which the well-bread son of a burly riverboat captain must prove his worth by taking over his father's old Mississippi steamboat. In the process he and falls in love with the daughter of his rival.
The boat: Another movie of seemingly endless disasters as master 'craftsman' Keaton builds, launches and sails his boat Damfino - complete with family, a bathtub for a lifeboat and an anchor that floats! [...] the wife and two children remain amazingly stoical and 'under-whelmed' by all the incredible calamities that continually happen around them. Unusually, for a silent film, there are two verbal plays on the name of the boat; the second, in the final sequence, requires the watcher to have just a little expertise in lip-reading!