Mississippi (1935)

Directed by

Wesley Ruggles, A. Edward Sutherland

Genre

musical film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 13m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man is disgraced when he refuses to fight for his sweetheart. He joins a riverboat show as a singer and accidentally gains a reputation as a sharpshooter.

lightheartedplayfulromanticupbeatcomedicmusicalwhimsicalold-fashioned

What happens

Mississippi is a 1935 American musical comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields, and Joan Bennett. Written by Francis Martin and Jack Cunningham based on the novel Magnolia by Booth Tarkington, the film is about a young pacifist who, after refusing on principle to defend his sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer and acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which a villain accidentally kills himself with his own gun. The film was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Mississippi has the distinction of being the only W.C. Fields film with a score by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. It is also the only film in which Fields co-starred with Crosby. Photographed by Charles Lang, the film featured art direction by Hans Dreier and Bernard Herzbrun and was edited by Chandler House. The sound man was Eugene Merritt. The original running time of this black-and-white film was 80 minutes. The film has been released on VHS and DVD as part of the W.C. Fields Collection in the United Kingdom. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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