Directed by:
A. Edward SutherlandCast:
Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Queenie Smith, Gail Patrick, Claude Gillingwater, John Miljan, Jan Duggan, Fred Kohler, Edward Pawley, Paul Hurst (more)Plots(1)
The son of a wealthy Southern family is disowned by them because he does not believe in dueling. He gets a job as a singer on a Mississippi riverboat. After an altercation with a notorious river tough, who gets accidentally shot with his own pistol, the riverboat captain, in order to attract business, bills him as "The Singing Killer." (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Bing Crosby
USA
Best movies:
The Country Girl (1954)
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Birth of the Blues (1941)
W.C. Fields
USA
Best movies:
Joan Bennett
USA
Best movies:
Scarlet Street (1945)
We're No Angels (1955)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Queenie Smith
USA
Best movies:
Caged (1950)
Show Boat (1936)
The Day of the Locust (1975)
Gail Patrick
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Stage Door (1937)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Claude Gillingwater
USA
Best movies:
Conquest (1937)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
John Miljan
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Juarez (1939)
Jan Duggan
USA
Best movies:
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
The Big Store (1941)
The Bank Dick (1940)
Fred Kohler
USA
Best movies:
Behind the Door (1919)
Underworld (1927)
The Plainsman (1936)
Edward Pawley
USA
Best movies:
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
'G' Men (1935)
The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
Paul Hurst
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Dennis O'Keefe
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Fury (1936)
Ann Sheridan
USA
Best movies:
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Dodge City (1939)
Woman on the Run (1950)
Forrest Taylor
USA
Best movies:
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Winchester '73 (1950)
When the Daltons Rode (1940)
King Baggot
USA
Best movies:
A Night at the Opera (1935)
San Francisco (1936)
Boys Town (1938)
Stanley Andrews
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Francis McDonald
USA
Best movies:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
James Burke
USA
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Jack Mulhall
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Helene Chadwick
USA
Best movies:
San Francisco (1936)
The Call of the Wild (1935)
Morning Glory (1933)