The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) is a Republic Pictures film starring John Wayne and Oliver Hardy. Decked out in buckskins and coonskin caps, Wayne and sidekick Hardy enliven 1818 Alabama. The movie was written and directed by George Waggner. The film was also known as A Strange Caravan and Eagles in Exile. The film also starred Shy Waggner, the daughter of director George Waggner.

In Alabama in 1818, Kentucky militiaman John Breen falls in love with a French exile and discovers a plot to steal the land her fellow exiles plan to settle on. Written by Jim Beaver