Laddie (1940 film)
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Director Jack Hively Music director Roy Webb Duration Language English | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama Story by Gene Stratton-Porter Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date October 18, 1940 Based on the novel
by Gene Stratton-Porter Writer Gene Stratton-Porter (novel), Jerome Cady, Bert Granet Cast Tim Holt (Laddie Stanton), Virginia Gilmore (Pamela Pryor), Joan Carroll (Sister Stanton), Spring Byington (Mrs. Stanton), Robert Barrat (Mr. John Stanton), Miles Mander (Mr. Charles Pryor)Similar movies Mad Max: Fury Road , Jack Reacher , Blue Is the Warmest Color , Annie , Dolores Claiborne , Killer Joe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Laddie is a 1940 American film directed by Jack Hively with Tim Holt in the title role.
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It was based on Gene Stratton-Porter's novel, Laddie, A True Blue Story (1913), and previously had been filmed by RKO Pictures in 1935.
Plot
Farmer son Laddie Stanton falls in love with the daughter of the man who just bought the land next door, Pamela Pryor. Her father is a vicious old Englishman, and isn't at all happy with the prospect of having Laddie as a son-in-law.
Pamela tries to make Laddie get another profession, to please her father and be able to continue their relation. Laddie is very upset and regards Pamela's plead as disrespectful. Laddie's sister, Sister, decides to help the. couple out.
Later, Mr. Pryor's dishonored son Robert, arrives on a visit. The Stanton family takes him in when his father doesn't, and Sister starts scheming how to use this to their advantage. When she tells Mr. Pryor that his son is staying with them, the old man is furious and goes to visit the family. He learns that Robert is ill and therefore was discharged from the British Army. Understanding that he was wrong about his son, Mr. Pryor forgives him and also warms to Laddie.
Pamela then apologizes to Laddie for trying to change him and they are reconciled.
Cast
Production
The title character of Laddie is modeled after Stratton-Porter's deceased older brother, Leander, to whom she gave the nickname of Laddie. Stratton-Porter's brother drowned in the Wabash River on July 6, 1872, when he was a teenager. As in Stratton-Porter's own family, Laddie is connected with the land and identifies with Stratton-Porter's father's vocation of farming. The novel on which the film is based was published in 1913.
Virginia Gilmore was borrowed from Sam Goldwyn. Filming started 1 June 1940.
References
Laddie (1940 film) WikipediaLaddie (1940 film) IMDb Laddie (1940 film) themoviedb.org