Rating: NR
Genre: Western
Release Date: 05/08/2001
SubTitles: French/Espanol/English
Dubbed: English/Espanol/French
Sound: 1
Run Time: 104 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: MGM

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 said of whip-wielding saloonkeeper Walter Matthau (in his film debut), who goads Lancaster into a bloody fight. Matthau wins this round, but he gets his just deserts before the final fadeout. Based on a novel by Felix Holt, The Kentuckian makes excellent use of Technicolor and Cinemascope, as well as the musical expertise of composer Bernard Herrmann.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Burt Lancaster - Big Eli
Dianne Foster - Hannah
Diana Lynn - Susie
John McIntire - Zack
Walter Matthau - Bodine
Una Merkel - Sophie
John Carradine - Fletcher
John Litel - Babson
Rhys Williams - Constable
Edward Norris - Gambler
Lee Erickson - Luke
Clem Bevans - Pilot
Lisa Ferraday - Woman Gambler

Production:
Burt Lancaster - Director
Harold Hecht - Producer
Bernard Herrmann - Composer
William B. Murphy - Editor
A.B. Guthrie, Jr. - Screen Writer
Ernest Laszlo - Cinematographer
Norma - Costume Designer
Roy Webb - Musical Direction/Supervision
Edward S. Haworth - Production Designer
Irving Gordon - Songwriter
Felix Holt - Book Author

Shane
    Alan Ladd / NR / 1953
Louis L'Amour's: The Sacketts [2 Discs]
    NR / 1979
Conagher
    Sam Elliott / NR / 1991
Espiritu Salvaje (All the Pretty Horses)
    Matt Damon / PG13 / 2000