Steamboat Bill, Jr. Steamboat Bill, Jr. Steamboat Bill, Jr. is a 1928 silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton. Released by United Artists, the film is the last product of Keaton's independent production team and set of gag writers. It was not a box-office success and became the last picture Keaton made for United Artists. Keaton ended up moving to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer where he made one last film in his trademark style, "The Cameraman", before his creative control was taken away by the studio. Charles Reisner directed the film, and the credited story writer was Carl Harbaugh, although Keaton wrote the script and publicly called
Steamboat Willie giant turtle which carried the Vanishing Isle upon its back, came back out of the turtle's mouth in the steamboat from this film and was even in Mickey's form, whistling "Turkey in the Straw". In a 2008 movie of the TV series "Futurama" called "The Beast with a Billion Backs" the opening is a parody of "Steamboat Willie". The beginning of series 2 of the TV series "Alexei Sayle's Stuff" (1989) shows a black and white animation entitled "Steamboat Fatty", a parody of "Steamboat Willie". In the " "anime, one of the episodes "Steamboat Willies!", is a play on the