Laddie (1940 film)

Laddie
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Directed byJack Hively
Screenplay byJerome Cady
Bert Granet
Based onLaddie, A True Blue Story
by Gene Stratton-Porter
Produced byCliff Reid
executive
Lee Marcus
StarringTim Holt
Virginia Gilmore
Joan Carroll
CinematographyHarry J. Wild
Edited byGeorge Hively
Music byRoy Webb
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • October 18, 1940 (1940-10-18)[1]
Running time
70 minutes / 6,297ft
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

RKO Radio Pictures's Laddie is a 1940 American drama film starring Tim Holt, Virginia Gilmore and Joan Carroll and directed by Jack Hively. It is the third film adaptation based on Gene Stratton-Porter's novel, Laddie, A True Blue Story (1913), and previously had been filmed in 1926 and by RKO in 1935.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Laddie: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 13, 2014.
  2. ^ Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p153.
  3. ^ Eric Grayson (Winter 2007). "Limberlost Found: Indiana's Literary Legacy in Hollywood". Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. 19 (1). Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society: 42–47. Retrieved July 17, 2017.