Film

Show Boat

Name: Show Boat
Director: Arch Heath
Released: 1929
Rating: 5
Cast: Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy, Otis Harlan, Alma Rubens

1929 · 146 min · ★ 5 · Dir. Arch Heath

Universal's Motion Picture Triumph!

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel