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As part of the publicity, the producer, Hecht, and Lancaster, commissioned Thomas Hart Benton to create the painting The Kentuckian, which depicts a scene from the film. The painting belonged to the Hecht family for years but was ultimately donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1978.
- $2.6 million (US)
- Harold Hecht
The Kentuckian: Directed by Burt Lancaster. With Burt Lancaster, Dianne Foster, Diana Lynn, John McIntire. A Kentucky widower bound for 1820's Texas with his young son is thwarted in his efforts by a corrupt constable, a long-standing family feud, and a beautiful indentured servant.
- (3K)
- Burt Lancaster
- Passed
- Drama, Western
The Kentuckian is a 1954 painting by American artist Thomas Hart Benton. It is based on a scene from the film The Kentuckian, where the backwoodsman Big Eli Wakefield (played by Burt Lancaster) and his son Little Eli (played by Donald MacDonald) encounter a frontier village.
The Kentuckian is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Burt Lancaster, who also starred. This was one of only two films Lancaster directed, and the only one for which he has sole credit. It was Walter Matthau's film debut. The film is an adaptation of the novel The Gabriel Horn by Felix Holt.
Aug 27, 2020 · In 1953, Thomas Hart Benton was commissioned by the motion-picture company Norma Productions to create a painting for the film The Kentuckian (1955) starring Burt Lancaster. Lancaster played the frontiersman Big Eli Wakefield, who decides to leave Kentucky in the 1820s to move to Texas with his little son, Little Eli played by Donald MacDonald.
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.
Dec 12, 2017 · The film could probably use a spiffing up but the print still looks good. RATING 7. TAGS 1955 burt lancaster drama the kentuckian western. The Kentuckian (1955) - IMDb. Burt Lancaster...
