Chad Hanna
| Chad Hanna | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Henry King |
| Screenplay by | Nunnally Johnson |
| Based on | Red Wheels Rolling (1940) by Walter D. Edmonds[1] |
| Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Starring | Henry Fonda Dorothy Lamour Linda Darnell |
| Cinematography | Ernest Palmer Ray Rennahan |
| Edited by | Barbara McLean |
| Music by | David Buttolph |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Chad Hanna is a 1940 American Technicolor drama film directed by Henry King, and was adapted from a bestseller of sorts that was published that same year. The novel was written by Walter Dumaux Edmonds (after it had first been published in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post under the title "Red Wheels Rolling"). It stars Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell and Dorothy Lamour.[2]
Plot summary
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In the 1840s, Chad Hanna (Fonda), a New York country boy working along the canal in Canastota, New York, joins a travelling circus. He falls in love with beautiful bareback rider Albany Yates (Lamour), but she spurns him. Chad then finds himself attracted to another runaway, country girl Caroline Tridd (Darnell).
Though everybody assumes that the boy is slow on the uptake, Chad manages to save the circus from financial ruin.[2]
Cast
- Henry Fonda as Chad Hanna
- Dorothy Lamour as Albany Yates
- Linda Darnell as Caroline Tridd Hanna
- Guy Kibbee as AD Huguenine
- Jane Darwell as Mrs. Bettina Huguenine
- John Carradine as Bisbee
- Ted North as Fred Shepley
- Roscoe Ates as Ike Wayfish
- Ben Carter as Bell Boy
- Frank M. Thomas as Burke (as Frank Thomas)
- Olin Howland as Cisco Tridd
- Frank Conlan as Mr. Proudfoot
- Eddie Conrad as Fiero (as Edward Conrad)
- Edward McWade as Elias
- Edward Mundy as Joe Duddy
- Sarah Padden as Mrs. Tridd
- Tully Marshall as Mr. Mott
- Nelson McDowell as Townsman
- Rondo Hatton as Canvasman (uncredited)
- Harry Tenbrook as Canvasman (uncredited)
References
- ^ Alan Goble (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 622–. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
- ^ a b allmovie.com entry
External links
- Chad Hanna at IMDb
- Chad Hanna at AllMovie
- Chad Hanna at the TCM Movie Database
- Chad Hanna at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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