Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
- Starring:
- Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, (more)
- Director(s):
- John Ford
Synopsis of Steamboat Round the Bend
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, Rovi
Complete Cast of Steamboat Round the Bend
- Will Rogers - Dr. John Pearly
- Irvin S. Cobb - Capt. Eli
- John McGuire - Duke
- Francis Ford - Efe
- Raymond Hatton - Matt Abel
- C.E. Anderson - Jailer
- William Benedict - Breck
- Dell Henderson - Salesman
- Jack Pennick - Ringleader of Boat Attack
- Vester Pegg
- Charles B. Middleton - Fleety Belle's Father
- Fred Kohler, Jr. - Popkins, Fleety Belle's Suitor
- John Wallace
- John Tyke
- John Lester Johnson - Uncle Jeff
- Ben Hall - Fleety Belle's Brother
- Luke Cosgrave - Labor Boss
- 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
- Sam Baker
- D'Arcy Corrigan - Hangman
- Lois Verner - Addie May
- James Marcus - Warden
- Ferdinand Munier - Governor
- Louis Mason - Boat Race Organizer
- Si Jenks - Drunk Farmer
- Wingate Smith
- Pardner Jones - New Elijah
- Robert E. Homans - Race Official
- Grace Goodall - Sheriff's Wife
- Charles "Heinie" Conklin - Tattoo Artist
- Hobart Cavanaugh - A Listener
- Director(s):
- John Ford
- Writer(s):
- Lamar Trotti, Dudley Nichols
- Producer(s):
- Sol Wurtzel
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