Underplayed Gems

Tennessee's Partner (1955)

Tennessee's Partner poster
Directed by
Allan Dwan
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 27m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A gambler and a mine owner become unlikely friends in a gold rush town. Their loyalty is tested by a woman who comes between them.

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What happens

Tennessee's Partner is a 1955 American Western film, directed by Allan Dwan, written by: Graham Baker, D.D. Beauchamp, Milton Krims and Teddi Sherman, with uncredited rewrites by Dwan, and starring: John Payne, Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming and Coleen Gray. The film was released by RKO Radio Pictures, which was then owned by industrialist Howard Hughes. While the film is based upon one of Bret Harte's most popular short stories, "Tennessee’s Pardner", it departs significantly from the original storyline. The 1869 Harte story has also been filmed as Tennessee's Pardner (1916), The Flaming Forties (1924) and The Golden Princess (1925). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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