Show Boat
Universal's Motion Picture Triumph!
7/27/1929
Imdb: tt0020402
Tmdb: 237067
Popularity: 0.76
Vote: 5/10 (2)

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel