Mississippi

The account is set in the year 1860. The place is the American south. Tom Grayson is a young man from the north. He is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy family. Elvira’s younger sister Lucy has feelings for him too. A quarrel turns into a challenge to a duel. Tom refuses to fight it. He does so on principle. The people around him call him a coward. He has to leave the town. He joins a riverboat. He works aboard as a singer. Captain Orlando Jackson invents a new name for him. The made up reputation changes the man. Bing Crosby and W.C. Fields appear in the seventy three minute film, an American production A. Edward Sutherland finished in 1935.