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 Show Boat
Remake of the classic Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein musical about life on a Mississippi riverboat. Tihs movie follows the eventful journey of two loves: firstly between the Captain's daughter and an itinerant riverboat gambler. The second between a mulatta who's trying to pass as white and her Caucasian husband. This was against Southern laws at the time forbidding mixed-race marriages. Star rating: ****
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