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Many Rivers To Cross

1955, Movie, NR, 92 mins

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Taylor plays a Kentucky frontiersman whose only desire is to find a northwest passage. Parker decides she wants him to marry her and persistently pursues him, despite rebuffs. It even goes so far as a shotgun wedding, with McLaglen, Parker's father, holding the gun on Taylor. Eventually the knot is tied, and Parker follows Taylor to the Northwest, only to be held up by Indians. Taylor rescues the girl, retiring to his fate. The script is well-balanced, tying comedy in with d... read more leave a comment
Eleanor Parker pursues trapper Robert Taylor through 18th Century Kentucky in the frontier comedy Many Rivers To Cross (1955).
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Posted: 8/1/2008
Synopsis: Kentucky woman hogties trapper into shotgun wedding in "screwball western."
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Posted: 11/28/2009
Year: 1955
Rated NR

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Cast
Robert Taylor: Bushrod Gentry
Eleanor Parker: Mary Stuart Cherne
Victor McLaglen: Cadmus Cherne
Jeff Richards: Fremont
Russ Tamblyn: Shields
James Arness: Esau Hamilton

 

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