THE KENTUCKIAN
(Hecht-Lancaster-United Artists) G Cert. | [_-XPECTING action in a Western (and wanting it), I found The Kentuckian a little easy-going; yet its story of a. backwoodsman and his small son on) their way to a larger life in Texas is | really very agreeable, and has its heart in the right flace. What’s he to do with | temptation, this Kentuckian, ‘ when it | turns up as worldly success and a pretty | schoolteacher in the settlement where | he stops to earn some money? Though | the narrow life contrasts with the world | he has known, he tells the boy: you've | got to put some things behind you- | meaning both Texas and the other pretty girl who wants to go there with them. | Even their dog must get used to the chain. But youth, of course; remains clear-eyed and uncorrupted, and after a fast and exciting showdown (no lack of action here, nor in an earlier, horrifying whip sequence, for that matter) gets its way. Burt Lancaster is the Ken- | tuckian, and this is his first film as a director. You'll probably like it.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 897, 12 October 1956, Page 15
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180THE KENTUCKIAN New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 897, 12 October 1956, Page 15
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