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1955 film by Burt Lancaster

The Kentuckian is a 1955 American CinemaScopeWestern film directed by Burt Lancaster, who also stars. This is one of only two films that Lancaster directed (the other was The Midnight Man), and the only one for which he has sole credit.

It is Walter Matthau's film debut. The film is an adaptation of the novel The Gabriel Horn by Felix Holt. The film was shot in locations around Kentucky, including Cumberland Falls, the Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park near London, Owensboro and Green River, and at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Village near Rockport, Indiana.^[2] A featured landmark is the natural arch Sky Bridge .

Plot

Frontiersman Elias "Big Eli" Wakefield decides to leave 1820s Kentucky to move to Texas with his son "Little Eli".

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They find a town where they have the same last name as a family suspected of murder. After a struggle, Big Eli is arrested and put in jail. Little Eli is minded by a wo