Lorna Doone is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Barbara Hale and Richard Greene.

As the English Civil War looms, John is determined to defeat the vicious Doone family and win Lorna over.

Edward Small first announced plans to film the 1869 novel Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore in 1944[2] and hired George Bruce to write a screenplay in 1946.

[7] In 1948, Alfred Hitchcock announced plans to film the novel for the short-lived production company he founded with Sidney Bernstein, Transatlantic Pictures.

This prompted Small to announce he would start filming in England in association with Rank and producer John Beck on 1 March 1949.