Many Rivers to Cross (1955)
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52% of users liked it
(132 ratings)
Packaged and sold as an outdoor actioner, Many Rivers to Cross is as much a comedy as anything else. Robert Taylor stars as 18th century trapper Bushrod Gentry, who is himself entrapped into marriage by the spunky Mary Stuart Cherne (Eleanor Parker). Escaping his marital responsibilities (which were… More Packaged and sold as an outdoor actioner, Many Rivers to Cross is as much a comedy as anything else. Robert Taylor stars as 18th century trapper Bushrod Gentry, who is himself entrapped into marriage by the spunky Mary Stuart Cherne (Eleanor Parker). Escaping his marital responsibilities (which were impressed upon him on threat of death), Gentry heads into the North Country, with Mary in hot pursuit. Hero and heroine spend the rest of the picture taking turns rescuing each other from hostile Indians. Some of the humor is predicated upon the wholesale slaughter of the "redskins", and as such is a bit hard to take when seen today. Supporting Taylor and Parker are Victor McLaglen as the heroine's burly father, and TV-stars-to be James Arness (Gunsmoke) and Russell Johnson and Alan Hale Jr. (Gilligan's Island). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Roy Rowland
- Genres
- Western, Romance, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 28, 1955 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A rube Western comedy romance with no kick, that's set in the late 18th-century frontier of Kentucky.
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Cast
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Robert Taylor
as Bushrod Gentry
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Eleanor Parker
as Mary Stuart Cherne
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Victor McLaglen
as Cadmus Cherne
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Jeff Richards
as Fremont
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Russ Tamblyn
as Shields
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James Arness
as Beau Hamilton
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Alan Hale Jr.
as Duke Runford
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John Hudson
as Hugh
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Rhys Williams
as Edge Blake
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Josephine Hutchinson
as Mrs. Cheme
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Sig Rumann
as Spectacle Man
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Rosemary De Camp
as Lucy Hamilton
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Russell Johnson
as Banks
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Ralph Moody
as Sandak
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Abel Fernandez
as Slangoh
- Rosemary DeCamp
- Sig Ruman
