Steamboat 'Round the Bend
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Film poster by Joseph A. Maturo
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| Directed by | John Ford |
| Produced by | Sol M. Wurtzel |
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Ben Lucien Burman Dudley Nichols Lamar Trotti |
| Starring |
Will Rogers Anne Shirley |
| Cinematography | George Schneiderman |
| Edited by | Alfred DeGaetano |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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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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