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Director
  
Henry Hathaway

Adapted from
  
The Shepherd of the Hills

Duration
  

Language
  
English

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Adventure, Drama, Western

Music director
  
Gerard Carbonara

Country
  
United States

The Shepherd of the Hills (film) movie poster

Release date
  
July 18, 1941 (1941-07-18)

Based on
  
A novel  by Harold Bell Wright

Writer
  
Harold Bell Wright (novel), Grover Jones (screenplay), Stuart Anthony (screenplay)

Cast
  
John Wayne
(Young Matt),
Ward Bond
(Wash Gibbs),
Betty Field
(Sammy Lane),
Harry Carey
(Daniel Howitt),
Beulah Bondi
(Aunt Mollie),
James Barton
(Old Matt)

Similar movies
  
Related Henry Hathaway movies

Tagline
  
Wayne's first film in color (Technicolor).

The Shepherd of the Hills is a 1941 American drama film starring John Wayne, Betty Field and Harry Carey. The supporting cast includes Beulah Bondi, Ward Bond, Marjorie Main and John Qualen. The picture was Wayne's first film in Technicolor and was based on the novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright. The director was Henry Hathaway, who directed several other Wayne films including True Grit almost three decades later.

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The story was filmed previously in the silent era by author Wright himself in 1919, released on State Rights basis. It was filmed again, in 1928, at First National Pictures.

Cast

  • John Wayne as Young Matt
  • Betty Field as Sammy Lane
  • Harry Carey as Daniel Howitt
  • Beulah Bondi as Aunt Mollie
  • James Barton as Old Matt
  • Samuel S. Hinds as Andy Beeler
  • Marjorie Main as Granny Becky
  • Ward Bond as Wash Gibbs
  • Marc Lawrence as Pete
  • John Qualen as Coot Royal
  • Fuzzy Knight as Mr. Palestrom
  • Tom Fadden as Jim Lane
  • Olin Howland as Corky
  • Dorothy Adams as Elvy
  • Virita Campbell as Baby
  • Selmer Jackson as Doctor (uncredited)
  • Differences from the novel

    While the novel interposed fiction with portrayals of actual persons residing in the Missouri Ozarks, in the early Branson area, the film departed markedly from the book's presentations. Old Matt, a patriarch, mill owner and influential person within the community, is presented in the film as a doddering fool, henpecked by his wife, Aunt Mollie. In the novel she's a nurturing, kindly, loyal wife and friend, but in this film she is a shrill, nasty moonshiner. The "Shepherd" of the title, a cultured, sympathetic visitor from Chicago who contributes positively to the society he's visiting, in this film is an aging gunfighter with a guarded past and, in total odds with the book, is here Young Matt's (John Wayne's) father, with a shootout perpetrated by "Big John." Other characters differ as markedly from Wright's novel.

    References

    The Shepherd of the Hills (film) Wikipedia
    The Shepherd of the Hills (film) IMDb The Shepherd of the Hills (film) themoviedb.org