

Steamboat Round the Bend
1935-09-06 · 81 min · ★ 7.5
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 hanged for murder.
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- Directors
- John Ford
- Production companies
- Fox Film Corporation
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Will RogersDoctor John Pearly
Anne ShirleyFleety Belle
Irvin S. CobbCaptain Eli
Eugene PalletteSheriff Rufe Jeffers
John McGuireDuke
Berton ChurchillNew Moses
Francis FordEfe
Roger ImhofPappy
Raymond HattonMatt Abel
Hobart BosworthChaplain
Stepin FetchitJonah
C.E. AndersonJailer
William BenedictBreck
Heinie ConklinJailbird
D'Arcy CorriganHangman
Luke CosgraveLabor Boss
Tex DriscollTownsman
Grace GoodallSheriff's Wife
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