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Steamboat 'Round the Bend

Steamboat Round the Bend
Poster of the movie Steamboat Round the Bend.jpg
Film poster by Joseph A. Maturo
Directed by John Ford
Produced by Sol M. Wurtzel
Written by Ben Lucien Burman
Dudley Nichols
Lamar Trotti
Starring Will Rogers
Anne Shirley
Cinematography George Schneiderman
Edited by Alfred DeGaetano
Production
company
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • September 6, 1935 (1935-09-06)
Running time
82 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $1.3 million

Steamboat Round the Bend is a 1935 American comedy film directed by John Ford, released by 20th Century Fox and produced by Fox Film, based on the 1933 novel of the same name by author Ben Lucien Burman. The film stars Will Rogers and was released a few weeks after his death in an airplane crash.

A con man enters his steamboat in a winner-take-all steamboat race with a rival while attempting to find an eyewitness that will save his nephew, who has been wrongly convicted of murder, from the gallows.

Steamboat Round the Bend was released as a region 1 DVD in 2006.



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