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23/10/2001

BBC Four - Show Boat

The daughter of a show boat's captain falls in love with a charming gambler.

Classic musical. Magnolia Hawks falls for a gambler when he joins their riverboat troupe. Songs include Ol' Man River and Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man.

Classic musical set in 1880s America. When the show boat Cotton Blossom arrives in a Mississippi town, all the townsfolk rush out to see them. Julie, the daughter of the boat's captain, falls in love with a charming gambler, but their relationship is disapproved of in the racially segregated deep south.

Musical based on Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's stage musical and Edna Ferber's controversial novel.

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