Home In Indiana (1944)

• Director
  • Henry Hathaway
• Writers
  • George Agnew Chamberlain(story "The Phantom Filly" in "The Saturday Evening Post")
  • Winston Miller(screenplay)
• Stars
  • Walter Brennan
  • Jeanne Crain
  • Lon McCallister

  In this touching drama, city-slicker Sparke Thorton goes to live on his aunt and uncle's horse farm in the country. The couple have basically retired from horse-breeding and only have one trotter left. Sparks fly when the young man meets the lovely Char and Cri-Cri, the two farm girls who introduce him to the finer aspects of country life including the cool pleasures of the swimming hole. He soon decides that he wants to raise a filly and become a champion racer. His uncle and the handyman help him. Much of the film was shot on location on racetracks in Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. There is also a sequence depicting the filly's birth, but it is sensitively handled.