John Ford : Steamboat Round the Bend / What Price Glory / Four Men and a Prayer

1. Steamboat Round the Bend\n\n--\nYear: 1935\n--\nStarring: Will Rogers, Anne Shirley\n--\nGenre: Comedy-Drama\n--\nSynopsis: This was the final film of beloved actor and humorist Will Rogers, released posthumously after his death in a plane crash. The film is a light-hearted period piece set in the 1890s on the Mississippi River. Dr. John Pearly (Will Rogers), a genial purveyor of a dubious patent medicine, purchases a dilapidated steamboat. He soon becomes involved in a race against a rival captain and is in a desperate rush to find a key eyewitness\u2014a traveling preacher\u2014who can clear his nephew, Duke, who has been wrongly convicted of murder and is facing the gallows.\n2. What Price Glory (1952)\n\n--\nYear: 1952\n--\nStarring: James Cagney, Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet\n--\nGenre: War Comedy-Drama\n--\nSynopsis: This film is a remake of the 1926 silent classic and is based on the famous 1924 anti-war play by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings. Set during World War I,.