The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)

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Release Date: Sep 15, 1949 Wide

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Set shortly after the Battle of New Orleans, the film casts John Wayne as John Breen, a Kentucky trooper making the long journey homeward with his confreres. Breen becomes involved with a plan by robber baron Blake Randolph (John Howard) to deprive hundreds of French army refugees of land granted to them by an Act of Congress. Championing the cause of the refugees, Breen does his best to defeat Randolph and his minions--and to prevent the villain's marriage to Fleurette De Marchand (Vera

Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.

Western, Classics

Directed By: George Waggner

Written By: George Waggner

In Theaters: Sep 15, 1949 Wide

On DVD: May 22, 2001

Cast

John Wayne
John Breen
Vera Ralston
Fleurette DeMarchand
Philip Dorn
Col. Georges Geraud
Oliver Hardy
Willie Paine
Marie Windsor
Ann Logan
Hugo Haas
Gen. Paul DeMarchand
John Howard
Blake Randolph
Grant Withers
George Hayden
Odette Myrtil
Mme. DeMarchand
Paul Fix
Beau Merritt
Mae Marsh
Sister Hattie
Jack Pennick
Capt. Dan Carroll
Mickey Simpson
Jacques the wrestler
Fred Graham
Carter Ward
Charles Cane
Knox Brown band leader
Sam Harris
Fleurette's Dancing Par...
Cliff Lyons
Driver
Bob Morgan
Stunts
Chuck Roberson
Militiaman
Hank Worden
Announcer of Wrestling ...
Crystal White
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Its overall mediocrity doesn't get in the way of its pleasant presentation.

August 24, 2005 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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This was actually a lot of fun to watch but rather odd as the heroes are the refugees from Napoleon's French Imperial court and the villains are a bunch of Alabaman river men trying to cheat the French out of thier land grants. PS the French win the land/range war with some help from John Wayne and Stan Laurel who is

December 15, 2011

Bobby Diablo

In Alabama in 1818, Kentucky militiaman John Breen falls in love with a French exile and discovers a plot to steal the land her fellow exiles plan to settle on.

March 13, 2007