The Kentuckian

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The Kentuckian is a 1955 Western film directed by and starring Burt Lancaster, following a frontiersman and his young son as they journey toward a new life in Texas.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Western film
film
artDirectionBy Hilyard M. Brown NERFINISHED
authorOfSourceWork Felix Holt NERFINISHED
basedOn The Gabriel Horn NERFINISHED
character Hannah NERFINISHED
Stan Bodine NERFINISHED
Susie Spann NERFINISHED
childActorPlaysCharacter Donald MacDonald as Little Eli Wakefield
cinematographyBy Ernest Laszlo NERFINISHED
colorProcess CinemaScope
costumeDesignBy Edith Head NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Burt Lancaster NERFINISHED
distributedBy United Artists
editedBy William A. Lyon NERFINISHED
featuresDebutFilmRoleOf Walter Matthau GENERATED
filmingLocation California, United States
surface form: California

Kentucky NERFINISHED
genre Western
adventure film
hasFilmPosterArtist Norman Rockwell NERFINISHED
leadActorPlaysCharacter Burt Lancaster as Elias Wakefield NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Elias Wakefield NERFINISHED
Little Eli Wakefield NERFINISHED
musicBy Bernard Herrmann NERFINISHED
narrativeLocation Kentucky NERFINISHED
Texas NERFINISHED
notableScene whip fight between Elias Wakefield and Stan Bodine
originalLanguage English
portrays frontiersman traveling to Texas
producer Harold Hecht NERFINISHED
productionCompany Hecht-Lancaster Productions NERFINISHED
releaseYear 1955
runningTime 104 minutes
screenwriter A.B. Guthrie Jr. NERFINISHED
setInPeriod 19th century
starring Burt Lancaster NERFINISHED
Diana Lynn NERFINISHED
Dianne Foster NERFINISHED
Donald MacDonald NERFINISHED
John Carradine NERFINISHED
John McIntire NERFINISHED
Una Merkel NERFINISHED
Walter Matthau NERFINISHED

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Diana Lynn notableWork The Kentuckian