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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, based on the 1933 novel of the same name by author Ben Lucien Burman.
Steamboat Round the Bend: Directed by John Ford. With Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette. A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
Based on the novel Steamboat 'Round the Bend by Ben Lucien Burman (New York, 1933).
Rum-based tonic fuels a wax-museum showboat captain (Will Rogers) in a life-or-death Mississippi race.
- Comedy, Drama
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
Steamboat Round the Bend ★★ ½ 1935. Snake oil salesman Dr. John Pearly (Rogers) is traveling to meet his nephew Duke (McGuire) so they can go into the riverboat business together.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round the Bend. Cobb isn't much of an actor, so it is Rogers who carries the comic weight of this fast-paced slice of Americana.
