Release Date: Aug 1, 1955 Wide
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Produced and directed by star Burt Lancaster, The Kentuckian is a leisurely western occasionally punctuated by spurts of startling brutality. The recently widowed Lancaster heads towards Texas with his son Donald McDonald. Most of the folks he meets, notably winsome schoolmarm Diana Lynn, bondslave Dianne Foster, and Lancaster's down-to-earth brother John McIntyre and sister-in-law Una Merkel, are pretty good souls, despite the raging family feud that motivates the plotline. The same cannot be
Aug 1, 1955 Wide
May 8, 2001
United Artists
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Burt Lancaster's only effort as solo director is this slow-moving, flat, so-so western.
You have to love Lancaster. He was and will always be a great actor. This one was a little timid but still a great westren.
August 8, 2009
Super Reviewer
It's worth watching just to see Walter Matthau in his film debut as the mean bartender who's a genius with a bullwhip & the scene where he takes on an unarmed Lancaster was the best part of the movie.Other then that, It was just so so
January 6, 2011Super Reviewer
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