Chad Hanna is a 1940 American drama romance film directed by Henry King, and was adapted from a bestseller of sorts that was published that same year.

The novel was written by Walter Dumaux Edmonds (after it had first been published in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post under the title "Red Wheels Rolling").

He falls in love with beautiful bareback rider Albany Yates, but she spurns him.

Chad then finds himself attracted to another runaway, country girl Caroline Tridd.

Although everybody assumes that the boy is slow on the uptake, Chad manages to save the circus from financial ruin.