Steamboat Round the Bend
John Ford directs Will Rogers in his final film. A fast-paced comedy and slice of Americana, Rogers stars as Dr. John, the proprietor of a travelling waxworks cum medicine show aboard an old steamboat on the Mississippi. Along for the ride is a skeleton crew, including the wonderfully named Fleety Belle (Anne Shirley). Their mission, to raise funds to pay the legal fees that may save Dr. John's nephew from the gallows.
Year: 1935
Genre: Comedy, Classic Comedy, Classic Cinema
Country: USA
Director: John Ford
Starring: Will Rogers, Ann Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette
Duration: 77 Minutes
Rating: G
7.3/10
Location in store: Classic Comedy
This DVD requires a multi-zone DVD player
AVAILABILITY
DVD AVAILABLE NOW!
Permanent Collection
For in-store pickup reservations please call 03 3650 615
ALICE ALSO SUGGESTS:
Tom and Huck (1995)
Those immortal Mark Twain heroes, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, are given the Disney treatment in this c...
Mark Twain (2001)
Nearly three years in the making and drawing from 63 hours of material, thousands of archival photog...
Judge Priest (1934)
Perhaps the best film example of the down-home wit of humourist Will Rogers was this early comedy-dr...
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Dr. Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter) is arrested for being an accomplice to the assassination of Abraham...
The Hurricane (1937)
In the colonial era, island native Terangi (Jon Hall) spends a blissful honeymoon with his bride, Ma...