User:NicolasSmith216/Kentucky (film)

Plot
During the Civil War, Thad Goodwin Sr. (Charles Waldron) of Elmtree Farm, a local horse breeder, resists Capt. John Dillon (Douglass Dumbrille) and a company of Union soldiers confiscating his prize horses to support the Union war effort. Thad Goodwin Sr. is killed by John Dillon, his youngest son Peter (Bobs Watson) cries at the soldiers riding away with the horses.

75 years later, in 1938, Peter (Walter Brennan), now a crotchety old man, still resides on Elmtree Farm and raises horses with his niece Sally (Loretta Young). John Dillon's grandson Jack (Richard Greene) returns home, quitting his banking job in England after 8 years. Jack and Sally meet, her not knowing that he was a Dillon. Sally's father, Thad Goodwin Jr. (Delmar Watson), makes a bet with Mr. Dillon (Moroni Olsen) for winner getting to pick one horse from the loser's farm. Thad Goodwin Jr. wins the bet but dies after receiving news that the cotton that he invested in is now at an all time low. The Goodwins are forced to auction off nearly all their horses and Jack offers his services to Sally, as a trainer of their last prize horse, "Bessie's Boy", who is later injured.

Sally eventually loses the farm, and Mr. Dillon (Moroni Olsen) makes good on his original bet with Thad Jr. and offers Peter any two-year-old on his farm. He picks "Blue Grass" instead of the favorite, "Postman", against Sally's wishes. Sally agrees to have Jack train "Blue Grass" for the Derby. She eventually learns of Jack's real identity as a Dillon and fires him as a trainer. During the race, Blue Grass runs neck and neck with the Dillon's horse Postman, but Blue Grass wins thanks to Jack's advice. Sally embraces Jack at the decoration ceremony, but Peter collapses before the ceremony and dies. At his funeral, Mr. Dillon eulogizes him and of the American life of the past, as "The Grand Old Man of the American Turf".

Reception
Kentucky Variety Magazine called Kentucky "...Hollywood's salute to the blue grass state." The performances of the actors was also heavily praised in reviews: "Orchids to Richard Greene for his great performance in 'Kentucky.' The Lorretta Young-Richard Greene team is the best we've seen for many a day."