Silver River (1948), Stage Struck (1925), Jitterbugs (1943), The Iron Mistress (1952), General Spanky (1936), Queen of the Yukon (1940), Badlands of Dakota (1941), The Yellow Rose of Texas (1944) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Riverboat movies.
Storyline: Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: veteran, best friend, rival, singer, husband, lawyer, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman dreams of becoming a great actress. When her boyfriend starts to flirt with an actual actress, she becomes jealous and decides to fight with her rival.
Plot Keywords: waitress, cook, actress, manager, actor, love interest, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: musician, partner, con artist, pretty woman, stan, ollie, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Barely historical presentation of the life of Jim Bowie. Here he goes to New Orleans to sell lumber but falls in love with Judalon. To match his rivals he must become sophisticated and does so. By the time he sells the mill, starts a plantation and tries to wed Jedualon the woman has wed playboy Phillipe. Along the way to true wisdom he designs a special knife made from part of a meteorite.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: man, friend, brother, love interest, suitor, emotional, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A small boy is instrumental in a famous Civil War victory.
Plot Keywords: child, soldier, gambler, runaway, slave, shoeshine boy, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sadie owns a riverboat that gold-miners are using to travel to their claims, while gambling and drinking on the way. The Yukon Mining Company sends Thorne to take over Sadie's boat and then cheat the miners out of their claims. Meanwhile, Sadie has kept her life a secret from her daughter Helen, whom she has sent away to school to live a more refined life, but one day Helen arrives unexpectedly. Her naive boyfriend Bob goes to work for the dishonest Thorne, while Helen enjoys the wild Yukon more than her mother wants her to. Sadie turns to her trusted friend Ace to sort out all the complications.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: business owner, gambler, businessman, daughter, fiancé, mother, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bob Holliday (Broderick Crawford), owner of the Bella Union saloon in Deadwood, sends his younger brother, Jim Holliday (Robert Stack), to St. Louis, Missouri to escort back Anne Grayson (Ann Rutherford), Bob's childhood sweetheart. On the riverboat journey back to Deadwood, Jim and Anne fall in love and are married by the riverboat captain. Whe Bob learns of this he is outraged and goes on a drunken binge and is beat up by the ruthless Jack McCall (Lon Chaney, Jr.) and is saved by a teamster called and known only as Jane (Frances Farmer). She loves Bob and has thought she and Bob would get married. Bitter Bob joins McCall's renegades who, disguised as Indians, rob the stagecoach gold shipments , aided by information supplied by Ransome (Bradley Page), the local agent for the stagecoach line. To end the lawlessness, leading citizens of the town decide to hire a town marshal. When Wild Bill Hickok, turns down the job, Bob suggests that the unqualified Jim be given the job. Bob thinks that Jim will be humiliated and possibly killed, so he can marry Jim's widow. With timely interference by Hickok, Jim arrests McCall but he escapes. And Jane makes an unsuccessful attempt to stop Bob riding with the renegades. Jim has a plan to capture the outlaws by having a posse follow the stagecoach, but it goes awry but Jim finds a watch-fob belonging to Bob. The latter claims he lost it when McCall beat him up. Jim buys his exclamation. Meanwhile McCall murders Hickok and Jim is going after him but is stopped when Jane warns the town that, based on smoke signals, it is about to be attacked by the Sioux. Jim sends stagecoach driver, Hurricane Harry (Fuzzy Knight), to bring General Custer (Addison Richards) and his 7th Cavalry troopers. The Sioux attack and set fire to the town, while Bob and McCall and the gang members, disguised as Indians and under cover of the attack, plan to rob the bank.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: sheriff, young woman, wild bill hickok, calamity jane, brash, amusing, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Insurance Investigator Roy is looking for Weston and the missing money he supposedly obtained in a robbery. When he catches him and listens to his story, he changes his mind about him. A freak accident locates the missing money box and they find the seal unbroken. Roy then announces the box will be opened at the showboat that evening.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: roy rogers, pretty woman, singer, captain, father, criminal, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A riverboat singer with a weakness for gambling wants to find his lucky red head, but his girlfriend Frankie is not amused.
Plot Keywords: performer, girlfriend, casino owner, musician, lover, rival, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: young boy, slave, father, preacher, runaway, teacher, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Prudence travels to an isolated Texas town where she has inherited the local paper. She finds the place ruled over by the two men who wrested the area from the Indians twenty-five years before, and it is clear they do not welcome her free-spirited intervention. Support comes in the unexpected shape of the gambler she has just bested in New Orleans for her own family reasons.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: publisher, gambler, deputy, judge, rancher, beautiful woman, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Still chasing women after the events of Porky's II: The Next Day (1983), Pee Wee and his hormone-addled friends of Angel Beach High find themselves having a lot on their plate. Years after the demolition of their lewd arch-nemesis' roadhouse in Porky's (1981), the band's sleazy old adversary now tries to force the basketball coach to fix the high-school basketball tournament, unbeknownst to him, however, that his oversexed daughter, Blossom, has a crush on one of the boys. Once more, Wendy and the team are on a collision course with Porky, and this time, he means business. Can the guys save the championship, be the school's heroes, and above all, rescue a young lover from a shotgun wedding?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: teen boy, friend, business owner, daughter, classmate, teacher, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tough sleuth Dick Tracy (Morgan Conway) has to crack a case when a series of murder victims starts turning up. Ultimately, he determines that they are linked to escaped convict Splitface (Mike Mazurki). Seeking vengeance, Splitface is hunting down those who have wronged him. When Tracy and his partner, Pat Patton (Lyle Latell), foil the criminal, Splitface kidnaps Tracy's girlfriend, Tess (Anne Jeffreys), holding her hostage to keep the ace detective from sending him back to prison.
Plot Keywords: dick tracy, criminal, partner, girlfriend, ward, professor, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Con men (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin) and their girlfriends fight, then unite, over a floating casino in 1870 Galveston.
Plot Keywords: businessman, rival, beautiful woman, outlaw, banker, townsperson, madcap ...
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