The golden whip
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The golden whip |
| Original title | Kentucky |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1938 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Butler |
| script |
Lamar Trotti John Taintor Foote |
| production |
Gene Markey Darryl F. Zanuck |
| music | Louis Silvers |
| camera | Ernest Palmer |
| cut | Irene Morra |
| occupation | |
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The golden whip (OT: Kentucky ) is an American love story by David Butler in the style of Romeo and Juliet . The Technicolor color film , shot in 1938, is about a family feud surrounding horse racing in Kentucky . The feud already began at the time of the Civil War .
action
During the Civil War, horse breeder Thad Goodwin refuses to confiscate his award-winning horses to Captain John Dillon and Union soldiers . He is then killed by Dillon. His youngest son Peter cries when the army moves on with the horses.
75 years later, Peter is a grumpy old man who still lives on the farm. He continues to raise horses with his niece Sally. John's grandson Jack Dillon and Sally Goodwin get to know each other, but without knowing about the dispute between their two families. The family gets into trouble when Peter's speculative bubble bursts on cotton and he loses almost all of his fortune. The Goodwins are forced to sell almost all of their horses. Jack, whose award-winning racehorse "Bessie's Boy" falls ill, offers Sally his services as a trainer.
The Goodwins eventually lose the farm, but Mr Dillon tries to make amends for his father's actions. He offers Sally a two year old horse from his breeding. Jack trains the horse “Blue Grass” selected by Sally, while his family even lets the racehorse “Postman” compete. When Peter finds out that Jack is John's great-grandson, he tries to prevent the race. Eventually, however, Blue Grass wins a neck-and-neck race against Postman. However, Peter dies during the victory ceremony. At his funeral, it is a member of the Dillon family who gives the funeral oration , ending a 75-year family feud.
background
Walter Brennan won an Oscar for Best Supporting Role at the 1939 Academy Awards for his acting performance . It was his second Oscar. He received the first in 1936 for Take What You Can Get . 1940 followed his third Academy Award for a supporting role in the film The Westerner .
In 1945 the Lux Radio Theater broadcast a sixty-minute radio play version of the film in which Brennan appeared in his old role.
Web links
- The golden whip in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hal Erickson : Kentucky Synopsis. Artistdirect.com, accessed January 29, 2013 .
- ↑ Oscar Statistics. (No longer available online.) Martin Göhring, archived from the original on January 11, 2013 ; Retrieved January 29, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
