A 100-year-old pioneer woman tells her story in flashbacks.A 100-year-old pioneer woman tells her story in flashbacks.A 100-year-old pioneer woman tells her story in flashbacks.
K.T. Stevens
- Girl Biographer
- (as Katharine Stevens)
Irving Bacon
- Parson
- (uncredited)
Hank Bell
- Man #1 - Hoyt City
- (uncredited)
Monte Blue
- Man #2 - Hoyt City
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 28, 1943 with Barbara Stanwyck reprising her film role.
- GoofsWhen the Hoyts stand at the sight of their future city, they're at the foot of a hill, but moments later they're on top of a hill.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Biography: Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line (1997)
- SoundtracksUnfinished Symphony
("Symphony 8 in B Major") (uncredited)
Composed by Franz Schubert (begun 1822)
Heard on soundtrack during Janet and Ethan's farewell and under end title
Featured review
"Spring never comes again...perhaps in the Indian Summer, we'll meet once more."
Fake history, played for bathos. On Founders Day in the thriving metropolis of Hoyt City, eager-beaver reporters swarm the home of a 109-year old woman, reputedly once married to founding father Ethan Hoyt; she's surely got a tall tale to tell, beginning when she was just a teenager in 1848 Philadelphia. Barbara Stanwyck begs, borrows, and barters to finance the future of idealistic husband Joel McCrea, who owns a great stretch of land with nothing on it but a shack. The narrative skitters over such crucial story-elements as railroad access, livestock, a water supply, financial aid--all for the sake of marital melodrama. Brian Donlevy, as a shady gambler who has immediate eyes for Stanwyck, does what he can with a character conceived as an afterthought (he plugs up the holes left behind by a screenplay spanning many years' time); Stanwyck and McCrea fare a bit better, though this story is seldom credible, and is often downright loopy. Production is handsome enough, and the intentions behind the film are apparently heartfelt, but there isn't a surprise in its entire 91 minutes. ** from ****
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- Sep 19, 2009
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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