Steamboat Round the Bend
1935 film
- September 6, 1935 (1935-09-06)
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Steamboat Round the Bend is a 1935 American comedy film directed by John Ford, released by 20th Century Fox and produced by Fox Film Corporation,[3] based on the 1933 novel of the same name by author Ben Lucien Burman. It was the final film made by star Will Rogers and was released posthumously, a month after he was killed in an airplane crash on August 15, 1935.
Plot
A con man enters his steamboat in a winner-take-all steamboat race in the 1890s with a rival while attempting to find an eyewitness that will save his nephew, who has been wrongly convicted of murder, from the gallows.
Cast
- Will Rogers as Doctor John Pearly
- Anne Shirley as Fleety Belle
- Irvin S. Cobb as Captain Eli
- Eugene Pallette as Sheriff Rufe Jeffers
- John McGuire as Duke
- Berton Churchill as New Moses
- Francis Ford as Efe
- Roger Imhof as Breck's Pappy
- Raymond Hatton as Matt Abel
- Hobart Bosworth as Chaplain
- Stepin Fetchit as Jonah
Home video
Steamboat Round the Bend was released as a region 1 DVD in 2006.[4][5]
References
- ^ Jack Murray was likely an uncredited editor on this film; see Pommer, John E. (July 24, 1994). "The Eyes Had It". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
I enjoyed Kenneth Turan's article on John Ford. Almost 60 years ago, I worked as assistant film editor on his "Steamboat 'Round the Bend." The film editor was Jack Murray, who often worked with Ford.
Pommer is the son of Erich Pommer. - ^ "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990.
- ^ Sennwald, Andre (September 20, 1935). "Movie Review: Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)". The New York Times.
- ^ Steamboat 'round the bend (DVD (region 1)). 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. 2006. OCLC 70863144.
- ^ John Ford's American comedies (DVD (region 1)). 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. 2007. OCLC 232835853.
External links
- Steamboat Round the Bend at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Steamboat Round the Bend at IMDb
- Steamboat Round the Bend at AllMovie
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