Show Boat

Jul 27, 1929

2h 26m

★ 5.7

Universal's Motion Picture Triumph!

Overview

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Magnolia

Laura La Plante

Gaylord Ravenal

Joseph Schildkraut

Parthenia Ann Hawks

Emily Fitzroy

Capt. Andy Hawks

Otis Harlan

Julie Dozier

Alma Rubens

Windy

Jack McDonald

Magnolia as Child / Kim

Jane La Verne

Schultzy

Neely Edwards

Elly

Elise Bartlett

Joe

Stepin Fetchit

Joe [prologue]

Jules Bledsoe

Queenie [prologue]

Tess Gardella

Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire Morris. When he meets her married aunt, Savina Grove, she appears to be the woman he imagines whenever he gazes at a doll he has christened Cytherea, goddess of love -----Cytherea features two dream sequences filmed in an early version of the Technicolor color film process.

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6.3

Illegal

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7.4

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4.9

Touched by a Killer

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5.9

Half a Sixpence

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"If I had the money, I'd buy me a banjo!" says struggling sales clerk Arthur Kipps. Soon he'll inherit enough to buy a whole bloomin' orchestra. But can his newfound wealth buy happiness?

0.0

The Eternal Three

Sep 22, 1923

A doctor's adopted son turns out to be an ungrateful whelp. He beds the doctor's maid, then his secretary, and finally targets the doctor's wife, his own stepmother as his next conquest....

0.0

Unseeing Eyes

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The sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue.

0.0

The Day of Faith

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Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a powerful and selfish millionaire, Michael Anstell, falls in love with Jane, to the old man's disapproval. Anstell tries to undermine Jane's work by hiring reporter Tom Barnett to write an unfavorable story about the mission.

6.3

Oliver Twist

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0.0

Lost and Found on a South Sea Island

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Faulke, a swindling white trader who persuaded Madge to leave Captain Blackbird, insists that her daughter, Lorna, marry Waki, a native leader, although Lorna loves Lloyd Warren. While in search of a doll for his other daughter, Baby Madge, Captain Blackbird comes to Pago Pago and gruffly refuses to aid Lloyd and Lorna, whom he does not recognize. A chance encounter with Faulke, however, reveals the trader's evil doings and Lorna's identity. The captain and his men rush to the island and rescue Lorna from the warring natives.

0.0

Three Weeks

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A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.

5.8

Maryša

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A village drama about the tragic culmination of a forced marriage. The film was financed by a Brno company, which required interventions in the generally known original. The reason for moving the location of the action and rewriting the dialogues into the appropriate dialect was the idea of making the spectacular Vlčnov costumes more spectacular. Their distinctive color led the producers to the idea of filming several crowd costumed scenes (the wedding) on color material. However, the parts of the color copy processed abroad were not used in regular distribution. Another requirement was to emphasize the positive influence of the Catholic Church and have a more conciliatory conclusion.

5.6

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4.5

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