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Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

Steamboat Round the Bend poster
Directed by
John Ford
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 22m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 19 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A steamboat captain competes in a race to win a prize and save his nephew from trouble. Set on the Mississippi River, the story follows his efforts with the help of his eccentric crew and family.

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What happens

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, 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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