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- TBC
- Drama, Romance
- 1957
- 166 mins
Raintree County
About
History as soap. A romantic drama on an epic scale, set against a background of the American Civil War. Enormously costly (made worse by production delays when Clift was involved in a disfiguring car accident), it offers little except looks and a starry cast. Dmytryk, increasingly a journeyman director, failed to overcome the ponderous script about a feisty southern belle (Taylor) who marries a teacher (Clift) only to tire of him.
Cast & Connections
- Actor: Elizabeth Taylor, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor, Nigel Patrick, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint
- Director: Edward Dmytryk
- Writer: Millard Kaufman
- Producer: David Lewis
- Photographer: Robert Surtees
In a nutshell
A movie doomed by its own sumptuousness, it is certainly not the hoped-for echo of Gone With the Wind, and nothing sets the screen alight, not even Atlanta burning.
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