Cousteau becomes a modern-day Huckleberry Finn to explore the Father of Waters. Shows the Mississippi's icy origin in Minnesota to its destination in the Gulf of Mexico. Looks at the river's land, wildlife, people, folklore, and industry.
Gives a brief overview of the history, geography, distribution of population, the political/social/economic systems, the Catholic Church, the military, and the problems in South America.
A very beautiful and blind girl, Gülüşan, marries miller Mestan and becomes his third wife. Gülüşan is not welcomed by the other wives, resulting in a dangerous power struggle among them.
A boy receives a Velveteen Rabbit for Christmas. The Velveteen Rabbit is snubbed by other more expensive or mechanical toys, the latter of which fancy themselves real.
A boy sees his parents gunned by criminals due to unpaid debts. Twenty years later, the boy, Mark Quinn, has become a hard-hitting cop, the kind that hates criminal scum, bending the rules to catch those criminals and drive them to despair.
Nin Kwok has a peaceful life in New Jersey with a wife and child. But an attempt on the life of his foster father takes him back to the mean streets of New York.
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Have you watched The Cousteau Collection N°21-1 | A Reluctant Ally: The Mississippi (Part 1) yet? What did you think about it?
