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Kentucky is a american film of genre Drama directed by David Butler released in USA on 30 december 1938 with Loretta Young
Kentucky (1938)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 30 december 1938
Length 1h35
OriginUSA
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Children's films, Horse sports in film
Rating62%
Kentucky is a 1938 Technicolor film with Loretta Young, Richard Greene, and Walter Brennan. It was directed by David Butler. It is a Romeo and Juliet story of lovers Jack and Sally, set amidst Kentucky horseracing, in which a family feud goes back to the Civil War and is kept alive by Sally's Uncle Peter.
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During the Civil War, Thad Goodwin (Charles Waldron) of Elmtree Farm, a local horse breeder resists Capt. John Dillon (Douglass Dumbrille) and a company of Union soldiers confiscating his prize horses. He is killed by Dillon and his youngest son Peter (Bobs Watson) cries at the soldiers riding away with the horses.Actors
Loretta Young
(Sally Goodwin)
Richard Greene
(Jack Dillon)
Walter Brennan
(Peter Goodwin)
Douglass Dumbrille
(John Dillon - 1861)
Moroni Olsen
(John Dillon - 1938)
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