Maryland (1940)
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The success of 1938's Kentucky prompted 20th Century-Fox to come up with the similar (though not entirely identical) horse-racing opus Maryland. After her husband (Russell Hicks) is killed during a fox hunt, Maryland matriarch Charlotte Danfield (Fay Bainter) forbids her son Lee (John Payne) from ever riding or even owning a horse. Lee obedient only until he meets lovely Linda Stewart (Brenda Joyce), the daughter of his father's ex-trainer William Stewart (Walter Brennan, doing a virtual reprise of his Kentucky characterization). In concert with Linda, Lee enters his horse in the fabled Maryland Hunt, an annual steeplechase event. The outcome of the race is instrumental in weakening Charlotte Danfield's anti-equestrian stance, but Stewart, alas, isn't around long enough to fully bask in his restored glory. Much of Maryland was filmed on location, gorgeously lensed in Technicolor by George Barnes. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Walter Brennan - William Stewart
- Brenda Joyce - Linda
- Charlie Ruggles - Dick Piper
- Marjorie Weaver - Georgie Tomlin
- Ben Carter - Shadrach
- Paul Harvey - Buckman
- Edward Thorgersen - Announcer
- Erville Alderson - Diggs
- Cliff Clark - Sheriff
- Clarence Muse - Rev. Bitters
- Dick Jones - Lee Danfield, Age 11
- Zack Williams - Fields
- Mildred Gover - Polly
- Clinton Rosemond - Brother Dickey
- Edward Fielding - Chairman
- Mme. Sul Te Wan - Naomi
- Floyd Shackelford
- Charles Moore
- Jesse Graves
- Spencer Charters - Judge
- Fay Bainter - Charlotte Danfield
- John Payne - Lee Danfield
- Hattie McDaniel - Hattie
- Sidney Blackmer - Spencer Danfield
- Ernest Whitman - Dogface
- Robert Lowery - Tom Bolton
- Stanley Andrews - Doctor
- Frank M. Thomas - Veterinarian
- Grace Hayle - Mrs. Carrington
- Bob Anderson - Lee Danfield, Age 7
- George H. Reed - Uncle Henry
- Darby Jones - Aleck
- Thaddeus Jones - Brother Moses
- Gladden James - Court Clerk
- Olive Ball
- Terry Moore
- Mantan Moreland
- E.E. Clive
- William B. Davidson - John Addison
- Director(s):
- Henry King
- Writer(s):
- Ethel Hill, Jack Andrews
- Producer(s):
- Gene Markey, Darryl F. Zanuck
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