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The Great Dan Patch (1949)
Directed by Joseph M. Newman
“WHAT A TIME FOR LIVING!...AND WHAT A GREAT LOVE STORY THEY LIVED!”
Adventure, Drama, Romance · 1h 34m
David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's horse-trainer, Ben Lathrop, whose daughter, Cissy, has left high school to help her father. Palmer marries and becomes wealthy through an invention, and is able to indulge his socially-ambitious wife. His father dies and Palmer returns to Indiana, where his interest in harness-racing is rekindled, as is his interest in Cissy Lathrop.
Cast
Dennis O'Keefe
David Palmer
Gail Russell
Cissy Lathrop
Ruth Warrick
Ruth Treadwell
Charlotte Greenwood
Aunt Netty
Henry Hull
Dan Palmer
John Hoyt
Ben Lathrop
Arthur Hunnicutt
Chet Williams
Clarence Muse
Voodoo
Harry Lauter
Bud Ransome
Highland Dale
Dan Patch, a Horse
Everett Brown
Stablehand
Stanley Blystone
Chris - Work Crew Foreman (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Joseph M. Newman
- Writer
- John Taintor Foote
- Director of Photography
- Gilbert Warrenton
- Original Music Composer
- Rudy Schrager
- Producer
- John Taintor Foote
Details
- Release date
- 1949-07-22
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- W.R. Frank Productions