Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

Directors

John Ford

Cast

Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette

The story

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. Doctor John Pearly, who sells Pocahontas patent medicine that is mostly pure alcohol, buys a broken down paddleboat steamer and intends to spend his sunset years leisurely cruising the Mississippi River with his nephew Duke as crewman. Duke shows up with a young uneducated girl, Fleety Belle, in tow, saying he has killed a man who forced his attentions on her.

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