Steamboat Round the Bend

Steamboat Round the Bend
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^[1]
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release dates	September 6, 1935 (1935-09-06)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.3 million^[2]

Steamboat Round the Bend is a 1935 American comedy film directed by John Ford,^[3] 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.

Plot

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

Cast

Will Rogers as Doctor John Pearly
Anne Shirley as Fleety Belle
Irvin S. Cobb as Captain Eli
Eugene Pallette as Sheriff Rufe Jeffers
John McGuire as Duke
Berton Churchill as New Moses
Francis Ford as Efe
Roger Imhof as Breck's Pappy
Raymond Hatton as Matt Abel
Hobart Bosworth as Chaplain
Stepin Fetchit as Jonah

Home video

Steamboat Round the Bend was released as a region 1 DVD in 2006.^[4]^[5]

References

↑ Jack Murray was likely an uncredited editor on this film; see Pommer, John E. (July 24, 1994). "The Eyes Had It". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2013-04-28. I enjoyed Kenneth Turan's article on John Ford. Almost 60 years ago, I worked as assistant film editor on his "Steamboat 'Round the Bend." The film editor was Jack Murray, who often worked with Ford. Pommer is the son of Erich Pommer.
↑ Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers", International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 (1938) p 942 accessed 19 April 2014
↑ Sennwald, Andre (September 20, 1935). "MOVIE REVIEW: Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)". The New York Times.
↑ Steamboat 'round the bend (DVD (region 1)). 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. 2006. OCLC 70863144.
↑ John Ford's American comedies (DVD (region 1)). 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. 2007. OCLC 232835853.

External links

Films by John Ford

Silent films	The Tornado (1917) The Trail of Hate (1917) The Scrapper (1917) Cheyenne's Pal (1917) The Soul Herder (1917) Straight Shooting (1917) The Secret Man (1917) A Marked Man (1917) Bucking Broadway (1917) The Phantom Riders (1918) Wild Women (1918) Thieves' Gold (1918) The Scarlet Drop (1918) Hell Bent (1918) A Woman's Fool (1918) The Craving (1918) Three Mounted Men (1918) Roped (1919) The Fighting Brothers (1919) A Fight for Love (1919) Rustlers (1919) Bare Fists (1919) Gun Law (1919) By Indian Post (1919) The Gun Packer (1919) Riders of Vengeance (1919) The Last Outlaw (1919) The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1919) Ace of the Saddle (1919) Rider of the Law (1919) A Gun Fightin' Gentleman (1919) Marked Men (1919) The Prince of Avenue A (1920) The Girl in Number 29 (1920) Hitchin' Posts (1920) Just Pals (1920) The Big Punch (1921) The Freeze-Out (1921) The Wallop (1921) Desperate Trails (1921) Action (1921) Sure Fire (1921) Jackie (1921) Little Miss Smiles (1922) Silver Wings (1922) The Village Blacksmith (1922) The Face on the Bar-Room Floor (1923) Three Jumps Ahead (1923) Cameo Kirby (1923) North of Hudson Bay (1923) Hoodman Blind (1923) Hearts of Oak (1924) Lightnin' (1925) Kentucky Pride (1925) Thank You (1925) The Fighting Heart (1925) The Shamrock Handicap (1926) 3 Bad Men (1926) Upstream (1927) Four Sons (1928) Strong Boy (1929)

Sound films	The Black Watch (1929) Men Without Women (1930) Born Reckless (1930) Up the River (1930) Seas Beneath (1931) The Brat (1931) Arrowsmith (1931) Air Mail (1932) Pilgrimage (1933) Doctor Bull (1933) The Lost Patrol (1934) The World Moves On (1934) Judge Priest (1934) The Whole Town's Talking (1935) The Informer (1935) Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) Mary of Scotland (1936) The Plough and the Stars (1936) Wee Willie Winkie (1937) The Hurricane (1937) Four Men and a Prayer (1938) Submarine Patrol (1938) Stagecoach (1939) Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) The Long Voyage Home (1940) Tobacco Road (1941) How Green Was My Valley (1941) They Were Expendable (1945) My Darling Clementine (1946) The Fugitive (1947) Fort Apache (1948) 3 Godfathers (1948) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) Wagon Master (1950) Rio Grande (1950) The Quiet Man (1952) What Price Glory (1952) The Sun Shines Bright (1953) Mogambo (1953) The Long Gray Line (1955) Mister Roberts (co-d, 1955) The Searchers (1956) The Wings of Eagles (1957) The Rising of the Moon (1957) Gideon's Day (1958) The Last Hurrah (1958) The Horse Soldiers (1959) Sergeant Rutledge (1960) Two Rode Together (1961) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) How the West Was Won (1963) Donovan's Reef (1963) Cheyenne Autumn (1964) 7 Women (1966)

Television	"Rookie of the Year" (1955) "The Colter Craven Story" "Flashing Spikes" (1962)

Productions	The Iron Horse (1924) The Blue Eagle (1926) Mother Machree (1928) Hangman's House (1928) Riley the Cop (1928) Salute (1929) Flesh (1932) The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) Young Cassidy (1965)

Documentaries	Torpedo Squadron Sex Hygiene (1942) The Battle of Midway (1942) December 7th (1943) This is Korea (1951) Korea: Battleground for Liberty (1959) Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend (1970) Vietnam! Vietnam! (1971) (produced and co-wrote)

The films of Dudley Nichols

Director & Screenplay	Government Girl (1944) Sister Kenny (1946) Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)

Screenplay	Men Without Women (1930) Born Reckless (1930) A Devil with Women (1930) Seas Beneath (1931) The Black Camel (1931) Hush Money (1931) She Wanted a Millionaire (1932) Pilgrimage (1933) You Can't Buy Everything (1934) The Lost Patrol (1934) Judge Priest (1934) The Informer (1935) The Arizonian (1935) The Crusades (1935) Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) The Three Musketeers (1935) Mary of Scotland (1936) The Plough and the Stars (1937) The Toast of New York (1937) The Hurricane (1937) Bringing Up Baby (1938) Carefree (1938) Stagecoach (1939) The Long Voyage Home (1940) Man Hunt (1941) Swamp Water (1941) The Battle of Midway (1942) Air Force (1943) This Land Is Mine (1943) Bataan (1943) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) It Happened Tomorrow (1944) And Then There Were None (1945) The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) Scarlet Street (1945) The Fugitive (1947) Pinky (1949) Return of the Texan (1952) The Big Sky (1952) Prince Valiant (1954) Run for the Sun (1956) The Tin Star (1957) The Hangman (1959) Heller in Pink Tights (1960) Escape from Zahrain (1962)

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