S2.E10

Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race

Episode aired Nov 16, 1955
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1h

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After a season of trapping, Davy and Georgie took their furs downriver to New Orleans in their keelboat, but are thwarted by Mike Fink, challenging a race with the furs the prize. Despite un... Read allAfter a season of trapping, Davy and Georgie took their furs downriver to New Orleans in their keelboat, but are thwarted by Mike Fink, challenging a race with the furs the prize. Despite unfair maneuvers by Fink, Davy wins.After a season of trapping, Davy and Georgie took their furs downriver to New Orleans in their keelboat, but are thwarted by Mike Fink, challenging a race with the furs the prize. Despite unfair maneuvers by Fink, Davy wins.

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- Norman Foster
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Another Man's Game

With the unbelievable success of Davy Crockett the Walt Disney Studios had to do something to revive the coonskin frontiersman. As we all know Davy was killed at the Alamo in history and on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.

The answer was to ignore history and just go back to the past and Disney had Fess Parker and his companion Buddy Ebsen just relive some earlier adventures such as this one where Davy Crockett and George Russell get involved in another man's game.

The other man is legendary flatboat captain and self styled King of the River and that would be the Mississippi and any of its tributaries. Mike Fink is played lustily and expansively by Jeff York and he's a worthy adversary for Parker.

The two get into a race and Crockett and Russell have put up a year's worth of furs just to shut Mike Fink's big mouth. Crockett is every bit the stand up hero, but he is playing another man's game.

Much as Fess Parker continued on as the ideal of American youth, this and the next film are stolen by Jeff York who got his career role as Mike Fink. There's also a nice bit by old flatboat captain Clem Bevans who's there to offer technical advise to Davy Crockett.

Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race holds up very well after 60 years, it will be great viewing for kids for generations to come.

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Real river keelboats were 50-80 feet long. The boats used here are less than 30 feet in length, leading them to be so undersized as to barely accommodate their crews while standing in operation, much less to have space for the men to sleep overnight.

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Stock footage of wildlife is used to supplement sequences involving wild animals. The footage is of a noticeably different quality than the new footage.