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Mississippi
1935 6.7 (7 votes) 1h 13m
Genres
Music Comedy
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures

Mississippi

SAIL AWAY ON A CRUISE OF MERRIMENT & MELODY

Overview

A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceƩ's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.

Key Crew

Director: A. Edward Sutherland

Producer: Arthur Hornblow Jr.

Story: Booth Tarkington

Screenplay: Francis Martin, Jack Cunningham

Director of Photography: Charles Lang, Karl Struss

Top Cast

Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Tom Grayson

W.C. Fields
W.C. Fields

Commodore Jackson

Joan Bennett
Joan Bennett

Lucy

Queenie Smith
Queenie Smith

Alabam

Gail Patrick
Gail Patrick

Elvira

Claude Gillingwater
Claude Gillingwater

General Rumford

John Miljan
John Miljan

Major Patterson

Jan Duggan
Jan Duggan

Thrilled Passenger in Pilot House

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