Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi (1980)

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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.

Director: Peter H. Hunt
Writer: Philip H. Reisman Jr.

Casts

	Robert Lansing as
	David Knell as
	James Keane as
	Donald Madden as
	John Pankow as
	Bill Holliday as
	Luke Reilly as
	Marcy Walker as
	Don Brady as
	Jack Lawrence as

Crew