Many Rivers to Cross is a 1955 American colonial Western film shot in CinemaScope directed by Roy Rowland and starring Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker.
Kentucky, the late 18th century: A traveling preacher's coming to town, but Miles Henderson is upset because Cissie Crawford seems reluctant to marry him.
Feeling love at first sight, Mary takes him home to her Scottish-born father, Cadmus, and their Indian servant, Sandak, to heal.
The story tells how a husband-craving tomboy of the Kentucky frontier literally exhausts a bold frontiersman into marriage and, after what seems years later, true love.The heavy-handed writing, directing and acting, especially that of Miss Parker and Victor McLaglen, as a hillbilly patriarch, all but nudges the customer into the aisle, in poking fun at buckskin horseplay, shotgun weddings and, as a climax, Shawnee warfare.
James Arness and Rosemary DeCamp are effective in the picture's one thoughtful interlude, and Mr. Taylor looks miserable about the whole dismal cartoon.”[4]