BB17-108 — MANY RIVERS TO CROSS
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YEAR: 1955
FILM STUDIO / PRODUCTION: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
DIRECTOR: Roy Rowland
CAST: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Victor McLaglen, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, James Arness, Josephine Hutchinson
SCREENPLAY: Harry Brown and Guy Trosper, based on a story by Steve Frazee
PRODUCER: Jack Cummings
MUSIC: Cyril J. Mockridge CINEMATOGRAPHY: John Seitz
GENRE: Western / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
FORMAT: Australian Daybill

Many Rivers to Cross is a 1955 MGM frontier Western starring Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker, set in the Kentucky wilderness of 1798. Taylor plays an independent trapper pursued romantically by Parker's determined frontier woman.

POSTER DESIGN FEATURES: An unusually minimalist Australian Daybill printed almost entirely in turquoise blue against white, featuring stylised artwork of Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker above the large block-letter title. Its sparse two-colour design is quite different from the more elaborate full-colour international campaign artwork.

COLLECTOR'S NOTE: A strong classic-MGM Western pairing Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker, with supporting appearances from Victor McLaglen, Russ Tamblyn and James Arness. The film was shot partly on location along California's Russian River and includes Taylor and Parker singing “The Berry Tree.”