Many Rivers to Cross

Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.

Cast

Robert Taylor

as Bushrod Gentry

Eleanor Parker

as Mary Stuart Cherne

Victor McLaglen

as Cadmus Cherne

Jeff Richards

as Fremont

Russ Tamblyn

as Shields

James Arness

as Esau Hamilton

Alan Hale Jr.

as Luke Radford

John Hudson

as Hugh

Rhys Williams

as Lige Blake

Josephine Hutchinson

as Mrs. Cherne

Reviews

John Chard

Finders keepers was the law of the forest! Many Rivers to Cross is directed by Roy Rowland and adapted for the screen by Harry Brown & Guy Trosper from a story by Steve Frazee. It stars Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Victor McLaglen, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, James Arness & Alan Hale Jr. Music...

CinemaSerf

Whilst not the most naturally obvious of casting here, the dynamic between the Calamity Jane-esque "Mary Stuart" (Eleanor Parker) and trapper "Bushrod" (Robert Taylor) works quite well. He is a bit of an heart-breaker who has an altercation with some Indians in the Kentucky wilderness and is luckily...

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