Steamboat Round the Bend

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Steamboat Round the Bend
Poster of the movie Steamboat Round the Bend.jpg
Film poster by Joseph A. Maturo
Directed by John Ford
Written by Ben Lucien Burman
Dudley Nichols
Lamar Trotti
Produced by Sol M. Wurtzel
Starring Will Rogers
Anne Shirley
Cinematography George Schneiderman
Edited byAlfred DeGaetano [1]
Production
company
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • September 6, 1935 (1935-09-06)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$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.

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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

Home video

Steamboat Round the Bend was released as a region 1 DVD in 2006. [4] [5]

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References

  1. Jack Murray was likely an uncredited editor on this film; see Pommer, John E. (July 24, 1994). "The Eyes Had It". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 28, 2013. I enjoyed Kenneth Turan's article on John Ford. Almost 60 years ago, I worked as assistant film editor on his "Steamboat 'Round the Bend." The film editor was Jack Murray, who often worked with Ford. Pommer is the son of Erich Pommer.
  2. "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety . October 15, 1990.
  3. Sennwald, Andre (September 20, 1935). "Movie Review: Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)". The New York Times.
  4. Steamboat 'round the bend (DVD (region 1)). 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. 2006. OCLC   70863144.
  5. John Ford's American comedies (DVD (region 1)). 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. 2007. OCLC   232835853.

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