Steamboat Round the Bend DVD (2004) Will Rogers, Ford (DIR) cert PG
Title:
Steamboat Round the Bend
Leading Actor:
Will Rogers
Duration:
96 mins
Format:
DVD / Normal
Type:
DVD
Studio / Publisher:
Elevation Sales
UK Release Date:
23 Aug 2004

Classic slice of Americana-style comedy adventure directed by John Ford. Will Rogers (who tragically died in a plane crash between the film's completion and its release) stars as Dr John Pearly, a charming and amiable quack doctor who sells his high-proof concoction 'The Pocahontas Remedy' along the Mississippi river from his riverboat the Claremore Queen. When his nephew, Duke (John McGuire), gets into trouble with the lynch mob after being accused of killing the man who attempted to rape his girl Fleety Belle (Anne Shirley), Dr John pulls out all the stops to save him from hanging, with increasingly farcical consequences: a climactic scene shows Dr John having to enter a steamboat race to get downriver in time, and feeding his paddle-steamer bit by bit into its own furnace to get to his destination. Please note this DVD is region 2 and will only work in the following regions Japan, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East (including Egypt) and Greenland, Unless you have a multi-regional DVD Player.