“Steamboat Round the Bend” is a comedy film starring Will Rogers as a steamboat captain who enters his boat into a winner-take-all race on the Mississippi River. Director John Ford (“The Grapes of Wrath” 1940) kept things running smoothly at the helm of this 82-minute picture. It was a production of Fox Film Corporation, which merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935 to form 20th Century Fox Studios.
The passable screenplay by Ben Lucien Burman, Dudley Nichols, and Lamar Trotti provided adequate enough dialogue for comedian Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette, John McGuire, Berton Chruchill, Francis Ford, Roger Imhof, Raymond Hatton, Stepin Fetchit, and Hobart Bosworth. “Steamboat Round the Bend” was Will Rogers’ second-to-last film, released only three weeks after his death in an airplane crash in August, 1935.
Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
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My Review
“Steamboat Round the Bend” is a comedy film starring Will Rogers as a steamboat captain who enters his boat into a winner-take-all race on the Mississippi River. Director John Ford (“The Grapes of Wrath” 1940) kept things running smoothly at the helm of this 82-minute picture. It was a production of Fox Film Corporation, which merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935 to form 20th Century Fox Studios.
The passable screenplay by Ben Lucien Burman, Dudley Nichols, and Lamar Trotti provided adequate enough dialogue for comedian Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette, John McGuire, Berton Chruchill, Francis Ford, Roger Imhof, Raymond Hatton, Stepin Fetchit, and Hobart Bosworth. “Steamboat Round the Bend” was Will Rogers’ second-to-last film, released only three weeks after his death in an airplane crash in August, 1935.