Movie

The Great Dan Patch (1949)

• NR
• July 22, 1949
• 1h 34m

• Adventure
• Drama
• Romance

“WHAT A TIME FOR LIVING!...AND WHAT A GREAT LOVE STORY THEY LIVED!”

Overview

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.

Director

Joseph M. Newman

Writers

John Taintor Foote

Starring

Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell, Ruth Warrick