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The Kentuckian
The Kentuckian is a 1955 Technicolor and CinemaScope adventure film directed by Burt Lancaster, who also starred. This was one of only two films Lancaster directed (the other was "The Midnight Man"), and the only one for which he has sole credit. It also marked the feature film debut of Walter Matthau. The picture is an adaptation of the novel "The Gabriel Horn" by Felix Holt. The picture was shot on location in Kentucky in the Cumberland Falls area, the Levi Jackson Wilderness Road
and a coonskin cap (as he would be a decade later in "The Fighting Kentuckian"), Wayne plays real-life James Smith, an American coping with British rule in colonial America. The supporting cast includes Brian Donlevy, George Sanders and Chill Wills. Claire Trevor and John Wayne also headed the cast of John Ford's "Stagecoach" the same year, and in "Allegheny Uprising" Trevor is top-billed over Wayne, due to her greater name value at the time.
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