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The Great Dan Patch

The Great Dan Patch

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 22, 1949

Runtime

1h 34m

Genres

Adventure, Drama, Romance

User Score

50%

Original Title

The Great Dan Patch

Production Companies

W.R. Frank Productions

Director

Joseph M. Newman

Description

David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's horse-trainer, Ben Lathrop, whose daughter, Cissy, has left high school to help her father. Palmer marries and becomes wealthy through an invention, and is able to indulge his socially-ambitious wife. His father dies and Palmer returns to Indiana, where his interest in harness-racing is rekindled, as is his interest in Cissy Lathrop.