A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
Will Rogers
as Doctor John Pearly
Anne Shirley
as Fleety Belle
Irvin S. Cobb
as Captain Eli
Eugene Pallette
as Sheriff Rufe Jeffers
John McGuire
as Duke
Berton Churchill
as New Moses
Francis Ford
as Efe
Roger Imhof
as Pappy
Raymond Hatton
as Matt Abel
Hobart Bosworth
as Chaplain
Stepin Fetchit
as Jonah
C.E. Anderson
as Jailer
