Thursday, January 13, 2011

The Great Man

The Great Man

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck , Joel McCrea , Brian Donlevy , Lloyd Corrigan , William B. Davidson , Thurston Hall , Mary Treen , Lucien Littlefield , K.T. Stevens , John Hamilton , Lillian Yarbo , Helen Lynd , Frank M. Thomas , Fred 'Snowflake' Toones , Etta McDaniel
Director: William A. Wellman
IMDB Rate: 7 out of 10 (114 votes)
Plot Summary:In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a girl biographer. Flashback in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star ages 80 years.

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