Kentucky Pride

Kentucky Pride
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Directed byJohn Ford
Written byDorothy Yost
Elizabeth Pickett (titles)
Produced byWilliam Fox
StarringHenry B. Walthall
Gertrude Astor
Peaches Jackson
CinematographyGeorge Schneiderman
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • September 6, 1925 (1925-09-06)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Kentucky Pride (1925) by John Ford

Kentucky Pride is a 1925 American silent drama film from Fox Film about the life of a horse breeder and racer, directed by the famed film director John Ford and starring Henry B. Walthall (who had previously played the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith's controversial 1915 film The Birth of a Nation).[1] It is among Ford's lesser-known works, but has been praised for sweetness and charm and its beautiful depiction of the life of horses and the relationship between the protagonist and his daughter.[2] Several well-known thoroughbred racehorses appear in the film, including the legendary Man o' War.[1][3] A print of Kentucky Pride is in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.[3][4]

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  4. ^ "Kentucky Pride". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.