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Roseanna McCoy
Kentucky The 1880sThe story of the great 'Hatfield - McCoy' feud — It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.
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Sport of Kings
KentuckyTwo brothers from the North try to gain favor in the South after they inherit a horse farm in Kentucky.
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Lady for a Night
Kentucky The 1870s The 1880sFROM THE DEEP ROMANTIC SOUTH COMES ANOTHER THRILLING DRAMA OF LOVE AND INTRIGUE — Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
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Confederate Honey
Kentucky The 1860sNett Cutler (Elmer Fudd) romances Crimson O'Hairoil in this send-up of Gone With the Wind (1939).
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Gallopin' Gals
KentuckyTime for the big horse race. We drop in on the fillies, who gossip in New York accents. That's followed by a pre-race fashion parade. In both of these, Maggie doesn't join in; she runs every year, but suffers from hay fever. The actual race is run, and Maggie is far back in the field. The other horses hear it's going to be a photo finish, though, and they all come to an abrupt stop and pose except Maggie, who keeps running and wins the race.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Kentucky The 1830sHIS GREATEST TRIUMPH! — Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Kentucky The 1830s The 1840sThrills! Adventure! Laughs! — Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
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Kentucky
Kentucky The 1930sYoung lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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Kentucky Moonshine
KentuckyThe Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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My Old Kentucky Home
KentuckySweetheart of a Love Story! — Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.
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You Can't Buy Luck
KentuckyWhen a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
KentuckyThe Technicolor spectacle that blazes the trail to an all-time high in adventure! — A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
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Daniel Boone
Kentucky The 18th CenturyONE OF THE MOST THRILLING STORIES OF AMERICAN HISTORY EVER FILMED! — In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
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The Little Colonel
Kentucky The 1870sShe Has Won An Unconditional Surrender From Every Heart! — After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.
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Kentucky Blue Streak
KentuckyHe broke jail to ride the winner! — A nosy reporter (Nugent) befriends the dumb Coughlin and pushes the Governor to commute his sentence. Now, Coughlin can ride his family's pride and joy in the Kentucky Derby. BUT, the mean old Warden cancels all paroles--and the idiot decides to escape (even though he's only got 10 more months to serve). So, the reporter has a hunch and goes to see if he can find Coughlin--and the Warden deputizes him!! At this point you might wonder if the boy will make good and win the big race
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Judge Priest
Kentucky The 1890sEnough laughs to make your head spin! — Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.
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Kentucky Kernels
KentuckyThe Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and Wakefields are conducting a bitter feud.
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Professional Sweetheart
KentuckyI want to sin and suffer. Now I just get to suffer. — Glory Eden (Ginger Rogers) is the star of Sponsored Radio show that requires Glory to live up to her pure, virginal, innocent image. Glory is at her breaking point and wants to rebel. To appease her desire for a man, the sponsor agrees to have her marry one of her fans, who turns out to be a hayseed, as long as she extends her contract.
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Huckleberry Finn
Kentucky The 1830sHey Folks, We're Together Again! — A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
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Tom Sawyer
Kentucky The 1830sThe classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.
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In Old Kentucky
KentuckyYoung Brierly struggles to save his father, Major Brierly, from the clutches of alcohol after the Great War. At the same time, he prepares Major Brierly's horse, which served bravely with the Major at the front, for the Kentucky Derby.
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The Mountain Eagle
KentuckyIn the Kentucky hills a store keeper tries to win the love of an innocent schoolteacher. She runs away and seeks refuge with a hermit.
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Thundering Hoofs
KentuckyA young woman returns to Kentucky after several years in boarding school, and discovers that a very valuable horse that is to be entered in the Derby is about to be forfeited due to the machinations of a rival. She determines to ride the horse in the Derby and win the race.
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Huckleberry Finn
Kentucky The 1830sHuckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.
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The Conqueror
KentuckyThe life of Sam Houston, soldier, statesman, patriot and one of the founders of the Republic of Texas, is depicted.
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A Kentucky Cinderella
KentuckyAfter the death of her father, a young girl goes to live with her uncle in Kentucky. She immediately comes into conflict with her uncle's shrewish wife. The Eye Filmmuseum holds an incomplete copy.
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The Apostle of Vengeance
Kentucky1916 American silent drama film directed by Clifford Smith and starring William S. Hart, Nona Thomas and John Gilbert. A Kentucky-born preacher returns home from Vermont in order to settle a feud between two warring families.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Kentucky The 1850sBased on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not leave, but Eliza flees with her child. After getting some help to escape the slave traders who are looking for her, she then must try to cross the icy Ohio River if she wants to be free. Meanwhile, Tom is sold from one master to another, and his fortunes vary widely.
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The Long Home
Kentucky The 1940sRural Tennessee in the 1940's: a young man unwittingly goes to work building a honky-tonk for the charismatically diabolical bootlegger who murdered his father ten years earlier and runs into conflict when he falls for the young woman the bootlegger is grooming to be a prostitute. NOTE: 2020-08-31 According to Wikipedia, The Long Home was tentatively expected to be released in 2017, and in November of that year, the sales rights to the movie were acquired by Great Point Media. However, it has yet to be released in any format as of 2020.
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Rendition
KentuckyAn exploration lamenting the officially sanctioned torture techniques of sensory deprivation and transportation.
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