Chad Hanna. 1940. Directed by Henry King

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Chad Hanna. 1940. USA. Directed by Henry King. Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection

Chad Hanna. 1940. USA. Directed by Henry King. Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson. With Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell. 35mm. 88 min.

Based on a forgotten bestseller by Walter Dumaux Edmonds (Drums Along the Mohawk), Chad Hanna is a prime example of the Technicolor Americana that was a Fox specialty under Darryl Zanuck. In 1840s New York, farm boy Chad Hanna (Henry Fonda) runs away to join the circus, where the dazzle of a hard-hearted bareback rider (Dorothy Lamour) turns him away from the true love of Caroline (Darnell), the fugitive daughter of a brutal slave hunter (Olin Howlin). Director Henry King seems to be searching for the innocence of his silent masterpiece Tol’able David (1921), but the fresh realism of the earlier film drowns in soundstage artifice.

This film accompanies Modern Matinees: Linda Darnell, Dark Lady of Fox.

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