The Fighting Kentuckian
by George Waggner
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Actor: John Wayne, Marie Windsor, Oliver Hardy, Philip Dorn, Vera RalstonDirector: George Waggner
Producer: John Wayne
Cinematographer: Lee Garmes
Writer: George Waggner
Editor: Richard L. Van Enger
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Republic Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Fighting Kentuckian
Movie Review: Classic drama of heroes and scoundrels
Summary: 3 Stars
Set in an America between The Revolution and The Civil War, the Fighting Kentuckian tells a story most likely unknown to most Europeans - the colonization of Alabama by French immigrants, many having served as generals and other officers in Napoleon's armies up to the defeat at Waterloo in 1815. John Wayne represents the foot soldier in The Militia as it slogs its way between insurgencies and "in-fighting". Taking to a French general's daughter at the outset of the film, Wayne's character questions the intriguing & thieving land-owners, the theft of another man's land, local power struggles and general dishonesty. At the end of course the good wins over bad, Wayne's character wins the girl and all live happily ever after. If you want entertainment a la Westerns',some French mystique and a feeling of the Classic movie starring Vivien Leigh & Clark Gable...then you have your Saturday night entertainment well in hand.
Summary of The Fighting Kentuckian
Here's something you don't see every day. Then again, would you want to? Several years before the 1950s' Davy Crockett craze, John Wayne donned a coonskin cap to play a militiaman in early-19th-century Alabama. He and his fellow Kentuckians are just passing through--"marching 600 miles," as they merrily sing (and sing, and sing), because riverboat magnate John Howard has refused to haul them. Howard and all-purpose scoundrel Grant Withers are scheming to dispossess a community of French ?migr?s--veterans of Napoleon's Grand Army who've come seeking life, liberty, etc. in the New World. Howard's also out to marry Vera Ralston, the French general's daughter. Naturally, Wayne's just the lad to gum up both plans.Wayne himself produced The Fighting Kentuckian, but far from repeating the success of his maiden effort, Angel and the Badman, this is one of the feeblest films in his long career. Writer-director George Waggner never gets a handle on what a pre-Western should look and move like. Consequently, the cast does a lot of standing around looking silly in period costume, waiting--mostly in vain--for the script to establish their connection to one another and something resembling a plot. There is a glossier look to the proceedings than most Republic pictures achieved, thanks to Lee Garmes's pearly cinematography, but this is scant consolation. So is the almost creepy presence of Oliver Hardy, sans Laurel, doing Ollie-shtick as Wayne's jolly sidekick. No, he doesn't say, "This is another fine mess you've got me into!" But he should. --Richard T. Jameson
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