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Life on the Mississippi

11/24/1980

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1hr 55min

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Music

,Drama

,TV Movie

STORY

Most mid-19th-century Mississippi River boys dreamed of occupying that pinnacle of power and glamour, the pilot house of a riverboat. In a riot of local color, this film tells how, unlike many, Sam's dream comes true. A callow teenager, he talks the tough but consummate Horace Bixby into making him his apprentice on the "Paul Jones," eventually following him to the much finer "Aleck Scott." Meanwhile, he is already spinning fantastic yarns to everyone from awe-struck lads ashore, to fellow "cub pilots", to young lady passengers who catch his eye. Things temporarily take a turn for the worse when Bixby must attend a meeting and leave Sam to work under Brown, a dour tyrant with a grudge against him.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Robert Lansing
  • David Knell
  • James Keane
  • Donald Madden
  • John Pankow

    Director

  • Peter H. Hunt

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Robert Lansing

David Knell

James Keane

Donald Madden

John Pankow

Bill Holliday

Luke Reilly

Marcy Walker

Don Brady

Jack Lawrence

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