Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
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Two of America's most distinguished humorists, Oklahoma's Will Rogers and Kentucky's Irvin S. Cobb, costar in Steamboat Round the Bend. Cobb isn't much of an actor, so it is Rogers who carries the comic weight of this fast-paced slice of Americana. Will uncharacteristically sticks to the script for most of the proceedings as the proprietor of a combination travelling waxworks and medicine show. The plot resolution hinges on a climactic steamboat race, in which Rogers' paddlewheeler is fed bit by bit into its own furnace when the fuel supply runs out. Steamboat Round the Bend was released posthumously after Rogers' sudden death, at which point Fox Studios tried unsuccessfully to create a "new" Will Rogers--in the form of his old friend and costar Irvin S. Cobb. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Will Rogers - Dr. John Pearly
- Irvin S. Cobb - Capt. Eli
- John McGuire - Duke
- Francis Ford - Efe
- Raymond Hatton - Matt Abel
- John Wallace
- Sam Baker
- Grace Goodall - Sheriff's Wife
- Lois Verner - Addie May
- James Marcus - Warden
- Ferdinand Munier - Governor
- Louis Mason - Boat Race Organizer
- Si Jenks - Drunk Farmer
- John Tyke
- John Lester Johnson - Uncle Jeff
- Ben Hall - Fleety Belle's Brother
- D'Arcy Corrigan - Hangman
- Hobart Bosworth - Chaplain
- Anne Shirley - Fleety Belle
- Eugene Pallette - Sheriff Rufe Jeffers
- Berton Churchill - The New Moses
- Roger Imhof - Pappy
- Stepin Fetchit - George Lincoln Washington
- C.E. Anderson - Jailer
- Charles "Heinie" Conklin - Tattoo Artist
- Robert E. Homans - Race Official
- Jack Pennick - Ringleader of Boat Attack
- Vester Pegg
- Charles B. Middleton - Fleety Belle's Father
- Fred Kohler, Jr. - Popkins, Fleety Belle's Suitor
- Wingate Smith
- Pardner Jones - New Elijah
- Dell Henderson - Salesman
- Luke Cosgrave - Labor Boss
- William Benedict - Breck
- Hobart Cavanaugh - A Listener
- Director(s):
- John Ford
- Writer(s):
- Dudley Nichols, Lamar Trotti
- Producer(s):
- Sol Wurtzel
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