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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 ...
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- Fox Film Corporation
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.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- John Ford
- 1935-09-06
Doctor Bull (1933) began a three-picture association between Rogers and director John Ford that continued with one of Rogers' best releases, Judge Priest (1934), and ended with Steamboat Round the Bend, his next-to-last film performance and the first of two released after his death in a plane crash in 1935 at the age of 55. Unsurprisingly, it ...
- John Ford, Ed O'fearna
- Will Rogers
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Audience Member Steamboat Round the Bend is an interesting and unusual film with occasional comic touches, but it's primarily a serious tale with elements of melodrama. The story is set in the ...
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- John Ford
- Comedy, Drama
- Will Rogers
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. John Ford. Director. Ben Lucien Burman. Novel.
Steamboat Round the Bend is one of 3 collaborations between director John Ford and actor Will Rogers, and was shot in 6 weeks in the Sacramento River Delta. The commentary by Scott Eyman, on the 2006 DVD, is worth having apart from the film. Eyman is author of two books on director John Ford: Print the Legend, and John Ford: The Complete Films.
Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) 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 who is about to be hung for murder. 15 1 h 21 min 1935. 13+. Romance · Comedy · Drama.
