Word: follyboat
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...past without the services of Don Ameche, and the result is a surprisingly pleasant though simple tale. Richard Greene's broad shoulders take on the burdens of an inventor, and as Robert Fulton he covers the New York waterfront of 1807 with punches and an English accent until his "follyboat" is a success. Although he suffers the common fate of Hollywood history-heroes and looks about half the forty-two years he should have, Greene does manage to show enough gusto and sincerity to make his role fill its proper part in the picture...
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