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| Genres: |
Comedy | Drama | Romance |
| Countries: |
USA |
| Actors: |
Rogers, Will | Shirley, Anne | Cobb, Irvin S. | Pallette, Eugene | McGuire, John | Churchill, Berton | Ford, Francis | Imhof, Roger | Hatton, Raymond | Bosworth, Hobart | Fetchit, Stepin | Anderson, C.E. | Baker, Sam | Benedict, William 'Billy' | Conklin, Heinie |
| Directors: |
Ford, John |
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Dr. John Pearly is an affable turn-of-the-century con man who sells a patent medicine that is mostly whiskey. He resurrects a broken down steamboat with a makeshift crew and challenges the respectable but arrogant Captain Eli to a winner-take-all river race. Pearly hopes his nephew Duke will serve as pilot, but he stands accused of murdering a ’swamp rat’ who threatened the honor of swamp girl Fleety Belle. After Duke is arrested, Pearly tries to raise money for a lawyer by displaying a wax museum aboard ship. Ultimately he gambles it all in the river race to Baton Rouge, where he hopes to find a witness whose treatment will free Duke.
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