Steamboat Round the Bend

A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.

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 Pappy

Raymond Hatton

as Matt Abel

Hobart Bosworth

as Chaplain

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