
Love Me Tender(1956)
At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for it.


“ROUGHER, TOUGHER, MORE ROMANTIC THAN EVER!”
John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.

John Wayne
John Breen

Vera Ralston
Fleurette De Marchand

Philip Dorn
Col. Georges Geraud

Oliver Hardy
Willie Paine

Marie Windsor
Ann Logan

John Howard
Blake Randolph

Hugo Haas
Gen. Paul De Marchand

Grant Withers
George Hayden

Odette Myrtil
Madame De Marchand

Paul Fix
Beau Merritt
The Fighting Kentuckian is a western, romance film released in 1949 exploring themes of kentucky, black and white, rifleman. Directed by George Waggner, it stars John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn. John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.
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