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Ashley H Kentucky is an okay film. It is about a family feud that goes back to the Civil War. Loretta Young and Richard Greene give decent performances. The script is a little slow in places. David Butler did an alright job directing this movie. I liked this motion picture because of the drama and romance. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Really love this movie Walter Brennan playing. Uncle Peter was really good. Hilarious yes I highly recommend it James Welch, Henderson, Arkansas October 30, 2023. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/30/23 Full Review Audience Member The Yankee ransacking prelude more or less spells out the eventuality that years later Young is going to fall for Greene and that their respective families are going to trample the path of true love. Quite literally, as the updated story is now played out against a bluegrass background. Get yourself into Hollywood mode and dispense with the logistics of script and story, and instead enjoy everything else. The performances, even though they embody strictly cliché and (predictably racial) caricature, are still marvellous for those who love a Fox-style wallow - Brennan won that year's Best Supporting Actor Oscar. The film is generally well and pacily edited, and the racing sequences are particularly exciting. The real star of this show though, for me, was the sublime photography which I can honestly say offered the most richest and well-preserved example of pre-40s 3-strip Technicolor I have so far seen. Even after more than 50 years, its luminescence (at least in this Channel 4 print) was breathtakingly striking and full of lustre, with yellow in particular registering far more strongly than I have previously seen in a 30s Technicolor movie, and natural outdoor verdance looking as if it had been sprayed with kiwi fruit dye. No doubt deployed deliberately to enhance the otherwise routine nature of the story, it would still take a considerable kick of horsepower to elevate the film to the grandeur of, say, 'Gone With The Wind', to which it bears more than a passing dramatic resemblance. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review deke p 1938! Loretta Young. Richard Green (future TV Robin Hood), Wd b considered racist today. Young (?) WALTER BRENNAN as usual OLD MAN no different than his Granpa Real McCoys overr 2 decades later! Epic similar to 1936 novel Gone With The Wind. But much longer, began in Civil War & ends about 70 years later. All re Ky horse racing farms & lots happy blacks. Northerners kinda unsympathetic. So some would hate this as 'ra-cist': like Gone With the Wind now cancelled & might never be seen again. Never heard of this until saw on MOVIES channel 12.10.2021. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review steve d It's story is nothing new or interesting. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Colorful but predictable horse racing nonsense; Brennan won an Oscar for playing yet another grizzled, grouchy old man. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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