Tag: Roustabouts

• “Heaven on Earth”: Shantyboats Go to Hollywood Again

  

  Film director Russell Mack’s Heaven on Earth (Universal Studios, December 1, 1931), based on Ben Lucien Burman’s 1929 novel, Mississippi, reintroduced American moviegoers to the world of the Mississippi River poor. The movie was released eleven years after King Vidor’s silent shantyboat film, The Jack-Knife Man. When Mack scouted filming locations, Harry Pollard, director of…

  Gregg Andrews

  February 7, 2023

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  Anita Louise, Ben Lucien Burman, Harry Beresford, John Carradine, Lew Ayres, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Roustabouts, Russell Mack, Shantyboats, Tennessee Belle

• Black River Roustabouts Lost and Found

  “The mate walked up and looked over the guard and said, ‘Well, pick up your iron and get out of the way; the man’s drowned now; needn’t be standing around.'”

  Gregg Andrews

  May 27, 2022

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  3rd Arkansas Infantry African Descent, 56th U.S. Colored Infantry, Captain H.B. Cock, Green Osborne, Hannibal, John L. Rhoads Steamboat, John Woodson, Ohio River, Roustabouts, Walter Wyman