Steamboat 'Round the Bend

Will Rogers Collection: Volume 1

Will Rogers teams with Oscar-Winning director John Ford in this rollicking ride down the Mississippi River, Featuring a superb supporting cast and a "spectacular" (Daily News) steamboat race, this "vigarously American folk tale" (The New York Times) will keep you entralled from beginning to "thrilling finish" (The Film Daily)!

When riverboat captain Doctor John pearly (Rogers) learn that his nephew Duke has killed a man in self-defense, he urges Duke to turn himself in. But Duke's only chance for freedom is the testimony of a half-crazed witness, New Moses, wo has disappeared upriver. With time running out—and Pearly's rival Captain Eli itching to race his paddle wheelerm the Pride of Paducah, against Pearly's steamboat, the Claremore Queen—Pearly sets off on a wild race to find New Moses, free Duke... and lasso a win for the Claremore Queen.