Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi (1980)


  • Genre: Music, Drama, TV Movie
  • Release Date: 1980-11-24
  • User Rating: 9/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 55min
  • Language: English
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Peter H. Hunt
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Summary

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.

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  • Robert Lansing

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  • David Knell

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  • James Keane

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  • Donald Madden

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  • John Pankow

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  • Bill Holliday

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  • Luke Reilly

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  • Marcy Walker

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  • Don Brady

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  • Jack Lawrence

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Writing Philip H. Reisman Jr. Screenplay
Writing Mark Twain Book
Directing Peter H. Hunt Director

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