Many Rivers to Cross (film)

Many Rivers to Cross

Theatrical Film Poster
Directed by Roy Rowland
Produced by Jack Cummings
Written by Harry Brown
Guy Trosper
Starring Robert Taylor
Eleanor Parker
Victor McLaglen
Music by Cyril J. Mockridge
Cinematography John F. Seitz
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • February 4, 1955 (1955-02-04)
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1,683,000[1]
Box office $3,832,000[1][2]

Many Rivers to Cross is a 1955 American film starring Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker.

Plot

Kentucky, the late 1700s: A traveling preacher's coming to town, but Miles Henderson is upset because Cissie Crawford seems reluctant to marry him. She seems more interested in a handsome trapper who's just arrived in the territory, Bushrod Gentry.

Cissie's life is saved by Bushrod after she's attacked by Shawnee tribesmen, but he's a confirmed bachelor who lets her down gently. While traveling on his own, Bushrod is wounded by the Indians and in danger until another woman, Mary Stuart Cherne, saves his life.

Feeling love at first sight, Mary takes him home to her Scottish-born father, Cadmus, and their Indian servant, Sandak, to heal. Her longtime suitor Luke Radford is unhappy about this interloper.

Bushrod again declines a chance to settle down, whereupon an angry Mary ends up keeping him there against his will. With her four brothers keeping a gun on him, Bushrod is forced to marry Mary.

He punches a justice of the peace and gets 30 days in jail. Another trapper, Esau Hamilton, has a sick child whose life Bushrod ends up saving. He slips away and intends to be on his own again, but Bushrod comes across Indians who are trying to scalp Mary. He saves her life this time, then accepts his fate as a man in love.

Cast

Production

MGM bought the rights to a story by Steve Frazer published in Argosy magazine. Jack Cummings was assigned to produce. Janet Leigh was originally intended to be the female lead.[3]

Reception

According to MGM records the film earned $2,084,000 in the US and Canada and $1,748,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $533,000.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. Domestic take - see 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1955', Variety Weekly, January 25, 1956.
  3. y THOMAS M PRYORSpecial to THE NEW,YORK TIMES. (1953, Mar 30). METRO'S TOP STARS TO APPEAR IN FILM. New York Times (1923-Current File) Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/112841820
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