The Fighting Kentuckian
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Director George Waggner Producer John Wayne Duration Language English | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Adventure, Romance, War Initial DVD release May 22, 2001 Writer George Waggner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 15, 1949 (1949-09-15) (USA) Cast John Wayne (John Breen), Vera Ralston (Fleurette De Marchand), Philip Dorn (Col. Georges Geraud), Oliver Hardy (Willie Paine), Marie Windsor (Ann Logan), John Howard (Blake Randolph)Similar movies The Story of Seabiscuit , Our Hospitality , Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story , Pride of the Blue Grass , Black Gold , Goldfinger Tagline ROUGHER, TOUGHER, MORE ROMANTIC THAT EVER! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The fighting kentuckian trailer
The Fighting Kentuckian is a 1949 American Western film directed by George Waggner starring John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Oliver Hardy, Marie Windsor, John Howard, Hugo Haas, Grant Withers and Odette Myrtil.
Contents
- The fighting kentuckian trailer
- Oliver hardy in the fighting kentuckian part 4
- Plot
- Historical setting
- Cast
- References
Oliver hardy in the fighting kentuckian part 4
Plot
John Breen, a Kentucky militiaman, falls in love with French exile Fleurette de Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on. Throughout the film, Breen's soldiers sing:
Only six hundred miles more to go Only six hundred miles more to go And if we can just get lucky We will end up in Kentucky Only six hundred miles more to goWhen the song is first heard, there are eight hundred miles to go (the tune is She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain).
Historical setting
The story is set in Alabama in 1818, including the city of Demopolis, which was founded by Bonapartists. The Bonapartists had been exiled from France after the defeat of Napoleon I at the Battle of Waterloo. Congress authorized the sale of four townships in the Alabama Territory in March 1817 at two dollars per acre, and Marengo County was created on February 7, 1818 from lands that had been taken from the Choctaw Nation. It was named after Spinetta Marengo, Italy where Napoleon defeated Austria in 1800 in the Battle of Marengo. The county seat, Linden, Alabama, was named after Hohenlinden, Bavaria where Napoleon won another victory against the Austrians. The Bonapartist colony did not succeed overall, in part due to surveyance issues that contribute to the plot of the film and in part due to practical difficulties in establishing the vineyards.
Cast
References
The Fighting Kentuckian WikipediaThe Fighting Kentuckian IMDbThe Fighting Kentuckian themoviedb.org