Watch The Kentuckian (1955) Free Online

Release Date: 1955

Cast: John Carradine, Dianne Foster, John McIntire, Burt Lancaster, Walter Matthau, Diana Lynn

Categories: Movies, Action/Adventure, Western, Adventure

The Kentuckian is a 1955 (Technicolor) (CinemaScope) adventure film directed by Burt Lancaster, who also starred. 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 would be shot on location in Kentucky location sites as the Cumberland Falls area, the Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park near London, Owensboro and Green River, and the Indiana site as the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Village near Rockport. This was one of only two films Lancaster directed (the other was The Midnight Man), and the only... MORE

The Kentuckian is a 1955 (Technicolor) (CinemaScope) adventure film directed by Burt Lancaster, who also starred. 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 would be shot on location in Kentucky location sites as the Cumberland Falls area, the Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park near London, Owensboro and Green River, and the Indiana site as the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Village near Rockport. This was one of only two films Lancaster directed (the other was The Midnight Man), and the only one on which he has sole credit (Roland Kibbee co-directed The Midnight Man). Frontiersman Elias "Big Eli" Wakefield (Burt Lancaster) decides to leave 1820s Kentucky and move to Texas with his son "Little Eli" (Donald MacDonald). Along the way, they run into two women who take a liking to the pair, indentured servant Hannah (Dianne Foster), who wants to go with them, and schoolteacher Susie (Diana Lynn), who would rather have Big Eli marry her and settle down. Big Eli also has to deal with villainous Stan Bodine (Walter Matthau), who cracks a mean bullwhip. LESS