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Director:

George Sidney

Writers:

Sinclair Lewis (novel)
Donald Ogden Stewart (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:

January 1948 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama | Romance more

Tagline:

"In Love With Her Was Like Being in an Earthquake!"

Plot:

Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is... more | add synopsis

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too preachy more (9 total)


Cast

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Spencer Tracy ... Cass Timberlane

Lana Turner ... Virginia 'Jinny' Marshland
Zachary Scott ... Bradd Criley
Tom Drake ... Jamie Wargate
Mary Astor ... Queenie Havock
Albert Dekker ... Boone Havock
Margaret Lindsay ... Chris Grau
Rose Hobart ... Diantha Marl
John Litel ... Webb Wargate
Mona Barrie ... Avis Elderman
Josephine Hutchinson ... Lillian Drover
Selena Royle ... Louise Wargate
Frank Wilcox ... Gregg Marl
Richard Gaines ... Dennis Thane
John Alexander ... Dr. Roy Drover
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Sinclair Lewis' Cass Timberlane (USA) (promotional title)
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Runtime:

119 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:G | Finland:S


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Walter Pidgeon who has a brief cameo in the film, was at one point considered for the title role. more

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Forecast (1945) more


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3 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
too preachy, 15 December 2000
Author: k_jasmine_99 from Nebraska

As much as I love Spencer Tracy, there wasn't much he could do with this boring, predictable, overly preachy script. Not to mention how ironic it is to hear him expound the virtues of fidelity when he had numerous affairs, the most famous being Katharine Hepburn, while still married.

Lana Turner is lovely, but I just couldn't get into the story line. I think it started out as a good idea: Cass Timberlane (Tracy) marries a younger woman (Turner) from the supposed "wrong side of the tracks", much to the chagrin of his snobby friends. Can they make the relationship work or not? If they would have developed the story more, and preached less, I think it may have worked. Instead it is just a two-hour sermon, more or less.

Well, at least there is a cute kitty included in the picture.

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