The Kentuckian (1955)

Directed by

Burt Lancaster

Genre

drama film, Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 56 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widower and his young son travel to Kentucky in the early 1800s looking for a new home. They face conflicts from a cruel landowner and try to live a free honest life.

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What happens

The Kentuckian is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Burt Lancaster, who also stars. This is one of only two films that Lancaster directed (the other was The Midnight Man), and the only one for which he has sole credit. It is Walter Matthau's film debut. The film is an adaptation of the novel The Gabriel Horn by Felix Holt. The film was shot in locations around Kentucky, including Cumberland Falls, the Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park near London, Owensboro and Green River, and at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Village near Rockport, Indiana. A featured landmark is the natural arch Sky Bridge . (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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