The Kentuckian (1955 film)
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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 (the other was The Midnight Man), 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. The film was shot in locations around Kentucky, including Cumberland Falls, the Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park near London, Owensboro, and Green River, and at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Village near Rockport, Indiana.[2] A feature landmark is the natural arch Sky Bridge .
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Directed by | Burt Lancaster |
Written by | A.B. Guthrie Jr. |
Based on | The Gabriel Horn by Felix Holt |
Produced by | Harold Hecht |
Starring | Burt Lancaster Dianne Foster Diana Lynn Walter Matthau |
Cinematography | Ernest Laszlo |
Edited by | George E. Luckenbacher |
Music by | Bernard Herrmann |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Hecht-Lancaster Productions |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2.6 million (US)[1] |
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