Steamboat Round the Bend explained

Steamboat Round the Bend
Director:	John Ford
Producer:	Sol M. Wurtzel
Starring:	Will Rogers Anne Shirley
Cinematography:	George Schneiderman
Editing:	Alfred DeGaetano^[1]
Studio:	Fox Film Corporation
Distributor:	20th Century Fox
Runtime:	82 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Gross:	$1,528,000 (rentals)^[2]

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

"Steamboat Round the Bend" is referenced as a movie playing in a movie house outside a restaurant scene in the movie "Paper Moon" (1973)

Notes and References

1. [Jack Murray (film editor)|Jack Murray]
2. News: Variety. All-Time Film Rental Champs. October 15, 1990.
3. News: Sennwald . Andre . Movie Review: Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) . September 20, 1935 . The New York Times .
4. Steamboat 'round the bend . 2006 . 70863144 . DVD (region 1) . 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
5. John Ford's American comedies . 2007 . 232835853 . DVD (region 1) . 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.