A country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with Albany, the star equestrian rider. Later, he falls in love with Caroline, another runaway who becomes the circus' new barebac... Read allA country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with Albany, the star equestrian rider. Later, he falls in love with Caroline, another runaway who becomes the circus' new bareback rider.A country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with Albany, the star equestrian rider. Later, he falls in love with Caroline, another runaway who becomes the circus' new bareback rider.
- Burke
- (as Frank Thomas)
- Fiero
- (as Edward Conrad)
- Budlong
- (as Paul Burns)
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- TriviaEven though she had to do several scenes with them, Linda Darnell was allergic to horses.
- GoofsAbout 20 mins into the movie, when Dorothy Lamour is talking to Henry Fonda from the steps of her wagon while wearing a robe, how she wears the robe changes from shot to shot. From the side view she has it discretely wrapped around her. From the font view she has it pulled tight and slightly open all the way to the waist, and is not wearing anything underneath it. In the final front view as Linda Darnell enters the scene, she has it very loosely wrapped and is wearing a slip underneath it.
- Quotes
Fred Shepley: [Talking to Albany] Any thing in pants, huh!
Chad Hanna: Hey Joe! What's happen there, Albany ain't married to him is she?
Joe Duddy: No! But you'd think so the way fight, wouldn't you.
He's got the title role in Chad Hanna who's a farm boy who gets a yen to join the traveling circus after seeing a poster of Dorothy Lamour as a bareback rider. That's Hank's hormones talking there, but later on another runaway in the person of Linda Darnell and it's the two of them that are fated for each other
The circus business back in the day was one dangerous profession and I'm not just talking about under the big top. Guy Kibbee and Jane Darwell's show is plagued by the much bigger outfit that Ted North runs and he wants them out of business. North even steals Lamour away from Kibbee's show, but that only serves to give Darnell a break and making her the top bareback rider.
Just the names I've mentioned so far indicate that Chad Hanna has a cast of some colorful players and you can add John Carradine to that list as well as Kibbee's advance man. One thing I don't understand is why Kibbee thought Fonda would make a good ringmaster when Kibbee was injured in a fracas with North's show. He promoted the shy Fonda over Carradine who has one of the great voices in the English language. Go figure that one.
Despite that faux pas, Chad Hanna remains a fine film done in nice technicolor and does capture the flavor of rural western New York back in the next to last century.
- bkoganbing
- Jun 21, 2010
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- Der Tod des alten Zirkuslöwen
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1