STEAMBOAT 'ROUND THE BEND (1935) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: John Ford
Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb,
Eugene Pallette, John McGuire, Berton Churchill,
Francis Ford, Stepin Fetchit, Roger Imhof
Will Rogers plays a riverboat pilot out to win a race and save his nephew from being hanged. In this movie, the river people hate the swamp people, the swamp people hate the river people, everybody hates the Yankees, and a sign that reads "WHITES" over a door at the railroad depot lets you know you're in the Jim Crow South. And there's Stepin Fetchit. Rogers died in a plane crash before the picture's release.
