Burt Lancaster

Dianne Foster

Walter Matthau

Diana Lynn

Donald MacDonald

John McIntire

Una Merkel

John Carradine

John Litel

Rhys Williams

Edward Norris

Will Wright

Douglas Spencer

Paul Wexler

Clem Bevans

Norman Leavitt

Harold Hecht

Felix Holt

A.B. Guthrie Jr.

Robert G. Carlisle

John K. Kean

James T. Vaughn

Russell Shearman

Paul Schmutz

Richard Maybery

Wayne Fury

Bernard Herrmann

Robert Priestley

Norma Koch

Roy Webb

Ernest Laszlo

George E. Luckenbacher

Ted Haworth

John Orlando

LaVaughn Speer

Robert J. Schiffer

Drama

Western

The Kentuckian

Hecht-Lancaster Productions

United Artists

United States of America

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Burt Lancaster starred in, and directed, this story of a well meaning traveller ("Big Eli") and his young son "Little Eli" (Donald MacDonald) heading to Texas hoping to make a decent living for him and his son. Along the way he encounters (and buys) an indentured slave "Susie" (Diana Lynn) who only complicates their already interesting journey as he fights his own demons with women, booze and a particularly nasty Walter Matthau ("Bodine"). It's a beautifully shot piece of cinema, this, and the mischievous charm of the star is writ large. It's too long, though - frequently sagging as the romantic elements go quickly from humorously hostile to schmaltzy just a bit too quickly. Matthau and his whip are the stuff of cinema legend though, and the young MacDomald plays his part well. Fans of Burt will love this, but I found I was bored by the half way mark as what pace it does have it doesn't really sustain.

English

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