Maryland (1940)

Director
Henry King

Main cast
Walter Brennan; Fay Bainter; Brenda Joyce; John Payne; Hattie McDaniel

Genres
Drama

Description
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.


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