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Kentucky (1938)

12/30/1938 Drama, Romance 1h 36m
58%
User
Score
6.2/10

Overview

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.

Lamar Trotti

Screenplay

John Taintor Foote

Screenplay

David Butler

Director

Top Billed Cast

Loretta Young

Loretta Young

Sally Goodwin

Richard Greene

Richard Greene

Jack Dillon

Walter Brennan

Walter Brennan

Peter Goodwin

Douglass Dumbrille

Douglass Dumbrille

John Dillon - 1861

Karen Morley

Karen Morley

Mrs. Goodwin - 1861

Moroni Olsen

Moroni Olsen

John Dillon - 1938

Russell Hicks

Russell Hicks

Thad Goodwin Sr. - 1861

Willard Robertson

Willard Robertson

Bob Slocum

Charles Waldron

Charles Waldron

Thad Goodwin - 1938

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on June 20, 2022

We start at the outset of the American civil war when the Yankee "Dillon" family seize the thoroughbred horses of the Confederate sympathising "Goodwin" family. It's during this operation that young "Peter Goodwin" sees his father gunned down. Spool onwards 70-odd years and the feud is still alive and well. "Peter" (Walter Brennan) is now an old curmudgeon with an amazing eye for the horses, but whose family are a bit down on their luck. When their nemesis "Dillon" family, who control the local bank, refuse to give them a loan to invest in a new cotton plantation; young "John Dillon Jnr." (Richard Greene) decides to help them out by getting his father to honour a bet allow them to give the lately bereaved, and pretty broke, daughter "Sally" a pick of their two-year olds. The skilful eye of...

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