The Great Dan Patch
5.9
“WHAT A TIME FOR LIVING!...AND WHAT A GREAT LOVE STORY THEY LIVED!”
David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's horse-trainer, Ben Lathrop, whose daughter, Cissy, has left high school to help her father. Palmer marries and becomes wealthy through an invention, and is able to indulge his socially-ambitious wife. His father dies and Palmer returns to Indiana, where his interest in harness-racing is rekindled, as is his interest in Cissy Lathrop.
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Cast
19 people
Dennis O'Keefe
David Palmer
Known for
The Leopard Man
Raw Deal
Gail Russell
Cissy Lathrop
Known for
The Uninvited
Angel and the Badman
Ruth Warrick
Ruth Treadwell
Known for
Citizen Kane
Song of the South
Charlotte Greenwood
Aunt Netty
Known for
Oklahoma!
Henry Hull
Dan Palmer
Known for
Werewolf of London
Lifeboat
John Hoyt
Ben Lathrop
Known for
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Attack of the Puppet People
Arthur Hunnicutt
Chet Williams
Known for
El Dorado
The Tall T
Clarence Muse
Voodoo
Known for
The Black Stallion
Shadow of a Doubt
Harry Lauter
Bud Ransome
Known for
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Highland Dale
Dan Patch, a Horse
Also in
Fury
Wild Is the Wind
Everett Brown
Stablehand
Known for
Gone with the Wind
Tarzan and His Mate
Stanley Blystone
Chris - Work Crew Foreman (uncredited)
Known for
Modern Times
Dark Command
Joseph M. Newman Director · John Taintor Foote Writer Rudy Schrager Composer
United States release July 22, 1949 · Produced in United States · Production United Artists Pictures
Production
W.R. Frank Productions
Production
United Artists Pictures
Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · July 22, 1949
Theatrical
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