THE KENTUCKIAN (1955) *1/2 Burt Lancaster starts judging himself by other people's standards and ends up in a whole mess of frontier-day trouble. But the psychological dynamics are eternal, the way he starts losing his son (Donald MacDonald sure looks like him, too) when he loses himself...the final hacking of society that cuts off Dianne Foster, the shadowed sense that something has gone very wrong. It's the only film that Lancaster directed (and probably the one where he figured out how much work it is), and he done good. Lots of action and heartbreak, but life was tough in those days. Not like today where you can just set down in an office and do what they tell you, and pick a wife out from the secretarial pool and get a nice place in a subdivision. Nah, back in them days there were temptations ...
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