An affable con man, Dr. John Pearly, sells a patent medicine with whiskey as its main ingredient. He restores a steamboat and challenges a captain to a winner-takes-all river race, hoping to free his nephew accused of murder.
Steamboat Round the Bend
On a steamboat, a sly con artist from Louisiana embarks on a high-stakes adventure to find a vital witness, racing against the clock to save his innocent nephew from a fatal hanging and clear his name.