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Laddie (1940)

Laddie poster
Directed by
Jack Hively
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man returns to his family's farm after years away and falls in love with a neighbor girl. The story centers on family bonds and the challenges of rural life in the early 20th century.

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What happens

RKO Radio Pictures's Laddie is a 1940 American drama film starring Tim Holt, Virginia Gilmore and Joan Carroll and directed by Jack Hively. It is the third film adaptation based on Gene Stratton-Porter's novel, Laddie, A True Blue Story (1913), and previously had been filmed in 1926 and by RKO in 1935. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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