Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

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Basic facts

Original title	Steamboat Round the Bend
Film type	Feature
Category	Fiction
Director	John Ford
Producer	Sol M. Wurtzel
Screenplay	Dudley Nichols Lamar Trotti
Original work	Steamboat 'Round the Bend (Novel)
Production country	USA
Production company	Fox Film Corporation
Dialogue	English

Cast

Will Rogers
doktor John Pearly

Anne Shirley
Fleety Belle

Irvin S. Cobb
kapten Eli

Eugene Pallette
Rufe Jeffers, sheriff

John McGuire
Duke

Berton Churchill
New Moses

Titles

Original title	Steamboat Round the Bend
Distribution title	Jokilaiva (Finland) Il battello pazzo (Italien)
Working title	Steamboat Bill

Crew

Director	John Ford
Screenplay	Dudley Nichols Lamar Trotti
Producer	Sol M. Wurtzel
Director of Photography	George Schneiderman
Music	Samuel Kaylin (ej krediterad)
Production Designer	William S. Darling (as William Darling) Albert Hogsett
Film Editor	Alfred DeGaetano (as Al DeGaetano)
Production Mixer	Albert Protzman Jack Lescoulie (ej krediterad)
Assistant Director	Edward O'Fearna (ej krediterad)
Script Supervisor	Stanley K. Scheuer (ej krediterad)
Unit Manager	L.C. Moore (ej krediterad)
Casting	Al Smith (ej krediterad)
Camera Operator	James Gordon (ej krediterad)
Still Photographer	Cliff Maupin (ej krediterad)
Assistant Cameraman	Paul Lockwood (ej krediterad)
Gaffer	Tom Ouellette (ej krediterad)
Best Boy	Sy Rubin (ej krediterad)
Key Grip	Vern Simmoirs (ej krediterad) Cluitt Urtubes (ej krediterad)
Orchestration	Emil Gerstenberger (ej krediterad)
Musical Director	Samuel Kaylin
Propman	Joe Thompson (ej krediterad) Dwight Thompson (ej krediterad) Monroe Liebgold (ej krediterad)
Costume Designer	Sam Benson (ej krediterad)
Make-up Supervisor	Paul Stanhope (ej krediterad) Vern Murdock (ej krediterad)
Hair Stylist	Irene Beshon (ej krediterad) Buddy King (ej krediterad)
Sound Assistant	Hal Lombard (ej krediterad)
Other Crew	R.L. Hough (business manager - ej krediterad) Henry Weinberger (assistant to business manager - ej krediterad)

Cast

Will Rogers	doktor John Pearly
Anne Shirley	Fleety Belle
Irvin S. Cobb	kapten Eli
Eugene Pallette	Rufe Jeffers, sheriff
John McGuire	Duke
Berton Churchill	New Moses
Francis Ford	Efe
Roger Imhof	Brecks pappa (Pappy)
Raymond Hatton	Matt Abel
Hobart Bosworth	pastor
Stepin Fetchit	Jonah
-	Ej krediterade:
William Benedict	Breck
Lois Verner	Addie May
John Lester Johnson	onkel Jeff
Ed Jones (as Pardner Jones)	New Elijah
Fred Kohler Jr.	Ben, Fleety Belles fästman
Ben Hall	Fleety Belles bror
Si Jenks	farmare vid demonstrationen
Louis Mason	båttävlingsarrangör
Robert Homans	båttävlingsfunktionär
Dell Henderson	köpman
Otto Richards	fånge
Jack Pennick	en man i sällskap med Pappy
Heinie Conklin	fånge
C.E. Anderson	fångvaktare
Grace Goodall	sheriffens fru
Ferdinand Munier	guvernören
D'Arcy Corrigan	bödeln
James A. Marcus	fängelsedirektören
Charles Middleton	Fleety Belles far
Luke Cosgrove	förman
Vester Pegg	Mink, förare på båten Pride of Paducah
Robert Parrish	pojke
John Tyke	ej identifierad roll
Wingate Smith	ej identifierad roll
Sam Baker	ej identifierad roll
John Wallace	ej identifierad roll
Ernest Shields	ej identifierad roll
Frank Mayo	ej identifierad roll
Jim Thorpe	ej identifierad roll

Companies

Production Company	Fox Film Corporation
Copyright	Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation	1935-09-06	LP5971

Technical specifications

Aspect ratio	1.37:1
Sound type	Sound
Sound system	Western Electric Recording
Colour type	Black and white
Carrier type	35 mm
Frames per second	24
Length in metres	2240 meter
Length in minutes	82 min

Original work

Original title	Steamboat 'Round the Bend (Novel)
Author	Ben Lucien Burman

Production location

			1935-05	1935-06-21
	Sacramento, Kalifornien	USA
San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta	Sacramento/Stockton, Kalifornien	USA

Release dates

First showing	1935-09-06			USA	82 min
Cinematheque screening	2019-09-07	Filmhuset	Stockholm	Sweden
Cinematheque screening, archive copy	2019-09-07

Soundtrack listing

Original title	Steamboat Round the Bend
Composer	Oscar Levant	(1935)
Lyrics	Sidney Clare	(1935)
Sung by	kör

Original title	Dixie
Composer	Daniel Decatur Emmett	(1860)
Sung by	Stepin Fetchit

Original title	Oh! Susanna
Composer	Stephen C. Foster	(1846)
Lyrics	Stephen C. Foster	(1846)
Instrumentalist	Stepin Fetchit	(ångorgel - calliope)

Original title	A Hot Time in the Old Town
Composer	Theodore M. Metz	(1896)
Lyrics	Joseph Hayden	(1896)

Original title	Home, Sweet Home
Composer	Henry Bishop	(1823)
Lyrics	John Howard Payne	(1823)
Instrumentalist	John McGuire	(såg)

Original title	Listen to the Mockingbird
Composer	Richard Milburn	(1855)
Lyrics	Alice Hawthorne	(1855)
Instrumentalist	Lois Verner	(piano)

Original title	Eagle Builds His Nest So High
Lyrics	Ben Lucien Burman
Sung by	kör

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