Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

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(1342)

Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1935-09-06
Director: John Ford (I) (1894–1973)
Writers: Dudley Nichols , Lamar Trotti , Ben Lucien Burman
Language: English
Stars: Will Rogers , Anne Shirley , Irvin S. Cobb , Eugene Pallette , John McGuire , Berton Churchill , Francis Ford , Roger Imhof , Raymond Hatton , Hobart Bosworth
Runtime: 82 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Steamboat Bill (United States of America) , Nas Águas do Rio (Brazil) , Il battello pazzo (Italy) , Steamboat Round the Bend , Mit Volldampf voraus (Germany) , Пароход, плывущий по течению , Barco a la deriva (Spain) , Steamboat Round the Bend (United States of America) , Steamboat Round the Bend (Canada) , Parobrod na reci , Steamboat Bill , Steamboat 'Round the Bend (United States of America) , 周遊する蒸気船 (Japan) , Jokilaiva (Finland)
Plot: Dr. John Pearly is an affable, turn-of-the-century con man who sells a patent medicine whose primary ingredient is whiskey. He resurrects a broken down steamboat with a makeshift crew and challenges the respectable but arrogant Captain Eli to a winner-take-all river race. Pearly hopes his nephew Duke will serve as pilot, but the young man stands accused of murdering a 'swamp rat' who threatened the honor of 'swamp girl' Fleety Belle. After Duke is arrested, Pearly tries to raise money for a lawyer by charging admission to a wax museum aboard his ship. Ultimately he gambles it all in the river race to Baton Rouge, where he hopes to find a witness whose testimony will free Duke.
IMDB:tt0027042