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Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
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6 September 1935 (USA)
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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 hung for murder. full summary | add synopsis
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This River Runs Deeper Than You'd Expect
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Will Rogers | ... | Doctor John Pearly |
 | Anne Shirley | ... | Fleety Belle |
| Irvin S. Cobb | ... | Captain Eli |
| Eugene Pallette | ... | Sheriff Rufe Jeffers |
| John McGuire | ... | Duke |
| Berton Churchill | ... | New Moses |
| Francis Ford | ... | Efe |
| Roger Imhof | ... | Breck's Pappy |
| Raymond Hatton | ... | Matt Abel |
| Hobart Bosworth | ... | Chaplain |
| Stepin Fetchit | ... | Jonah |
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Steamboat Bill
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USA:81 min (FMC Library Print) | 82 min (copyright length)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
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Rogers bought the rights to the story for $10,000 in 1933. It was Fox's biggest grosser in 1935.
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Sheriff Rufe Jeffers:
[performing wedding ceremony in jail] Friends, we're gathered here in the eyes of God and one another for the purpose of joining together this here man and this here woman in holy matrimony. Can't nobody rightly say nothin' agin marriage, 'cause I reckon God intended everybody to live that-a-way...
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Referenced in Paper Moon (1973)
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There's No Place Like Home (Home, Sweet Home)
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It's funny to think that when this film was made, it was about a time in the early 1890's, only 35 years earlier than it's production. Now we are looking back almost 75 years at the film itself. I expected a light wacky comedy, but there is definitely a well-rounded plot here revolving around murder in self-defense. Will Rogers gives a very skilled and sympathetic performance, but some of the more hilarious gags in this are gifts from the writers.
The sheriff/preacher's wedding speech goes right up there with Donald Sutherland's in "Little Murders" for sheer comic value.
A great throwaway gag involves the search for the New Moses, when they accidentally run into the New Elijah instead!
Steppin Fetchit, while no great symbol for African Americans, actually plays against his lazy type in this, and his hard work and quick thinking actually save the day on a couple occasions.
A great (and uncommon) saw-playing musical interlude!
To me, the only major weakness was Ms. Shirley as the ingenue. She was quite likable, but did not seem to have lived as hard as her character was supposed to have.
All told, a winner of a film for fans of the 1930's view of the 1890's.