The Great Dan Patch

Synopsis

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.

Director

Joseph M. Newman

Written by

John Taintor Foote

Music

Rudy Schrager

Studio

W.R. Frank Productions

Released

22 July 1949

Genres

Adventure, Drama, Romance