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Kentucky Pride is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Ford released in USA on 6 september 1925 with Henry B. Walthall

Kentucky Pride (1925)

Kentucky Pride
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Released in USA 6 september 1925
Length 1h10
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy-drama
Rating60% 3.0476653.0476653.0476653.0476653.047665

Kentucky Pride is a 1925 American silent drama film from Fox Film about the life of a horse breeder and racer, directed by the famed film director John Ford and starring Henry B. Walthall (who had previously played the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith's controversial 1915 film The Birth of a Nation). It is among Ford's lesser-known works, but has been praised for sweetness and charm and its beautiful depiction of the life of horses and the relationship between the protagonist and his daughter. Several well-known thoroughbred racehorses appear in the film, including the legendary Man o' War.

Synopsis

The plot concerns Beaumont, a horse breeder with a penchant for gambling, who is down on his luck. After losing at poker and being forced to give up several of his horses to cover his losses, Beaumont bets it all and loses again when his horse, Virginia's Future, suddenly falls and breaks a leg while leading the pack in a critical race. Beaumont's selfish wife tells the horse's trainer, Mike Donovan, to kill the injured horse, and abandons Beaumont for Greve Carter, a well-to-do neighbor. Beaumont also loses his relationship with Virginia, his daughter from his previous marriage. Beaumont and Donovan manage to save Virginia's Future, and she births a colt (or a filly) named Confederacy, but his financial troubles force him to sell off both the colt and the mare. Confederacy is mistreated by his new owner, a foreign junk dealer, and Virginia's Future is forced into hard labor as a pack horse. But when Confederacy is later entered to run in the Futurity, ridden by Mike Donovan's son Danny, Beaumont gathers everything he can and bets it all again. This time he wins. He is reunited with his daughter and buys back the colt, giving it a good life in the pasture.

Actors

Henry B. Walthall

(Mr. Beaumont)Gertrude Astor

(Mrs. Beaumont, the selfish second wife of Mr. Beaumont)J. Farrell MacDonald

(Donavan)Peaches Jackson Guererro

(Beaumont's daughter Virginia)Winston Miller

(Danny Donavan)
And :
Malcolm Waite
George Reed
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