THE FIGHTING KENTUCKIAN (1949) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: George Waggner
John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn,
Oliver Hardy, Marie Windsor
Marching back to Kentucky after the War of 1812, the Duke stops in Alabama, where some French settlers loyal to Napoleon are trying to make a go of it, and some greedy land-grabbers are trying to rip them off. A lively western (though it all takes place east of the Mississippi) with cavalry battles, fistfights, chases on horseback, broad comic relief, coonskin caps and a dash or two of John Wayne's trademark frontier populism. One of only three features Oliver Hardy appeared in without Stan Laurel after the two teamed up.
