Chad Hanna

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Chad Hanna
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Directed by Henry King
Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson
Based onRed 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
Color process Technicolor
Production
company
20th Century Fox
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • December 25, 1940 (1940-12-25)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Chad Hanna is a 1940 American drama romance 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]

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Plot

In the 1840s, Chad Hanna, 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, but she spurns him. Chad then finds himself attracted to another runaway, country girl Caroline Tridd.

Although everybody assumes that the boy is slow on the uptake, Chad manages to save the circus from financial ruin. [2]

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References

  1. Alan Goble (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 622–. ISBN   978-3-11-095194-3.
  2. 1 2 allmovie.com entry