Chad Hanna (1940)

NR12/25/1940Romance, Drama, History1h 26m
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Overview

Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Henry Fonda

    Chad Hanna

  2. Cast 1

    Dorothy Lamour

    Albany Yates / Lady Lillian

  3. Cast 1

    Linda Darnell

    Caroline Tridd Hanna

  4. Cast 1

    Guy Kibbee

    A. D. Huguenine

  5. Cast 1

    Jane Darwell

    Mrs. Bettina Huguenine

  6. Cast 1

    John Carradine

    B. D. Bisbee

  7. Cast 1

    Ted North

    Fred Shepley

  8. Cast 1

    Roscoe Ates

    Ike Wayfish

  9. Cast 1

    Ben Carter

    Bell Boy

Henry Fonda is adequate but really nothing more in this story of a 19th century love triangle. He is a young and naive erstwhile stable-lad who joins the travelling circus community and pretty immediately falls for "Albany" (Dorothy Lamour). She is feisty and determined - she is the fearless horseback rider after all. Things become more complicated for him, though, when he takes a shine to an elephant and hops big tops. That's when he encounters "Caroline" (Linda Darnell) - a familiar face from his youth and from here on in this film slips, effortlessly, into the realms of romantic melodrama -...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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