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January 1948 (USA)
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"In Love With Her Was Like Being in an Earthquake!"
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Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is...
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Soap Opera From Sinclair Lewis
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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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Sinclair Lewis' Cass Timberlane (USA) (promotional title)
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119 min
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Fay Hendry, the mother of Sonya Hendry, a young girl who appeared in the film, was awarded nearly $30,000 for injuries she sustained when the girl was struck by a falling reflector at the site of location filming.
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Cass Timberlane is a surprising piece of work coming from the pen of Sinclair Lewis. Lewis's reputation as American novelist comes from such polemical work as It Can't Happen Here, Main Street, and Elmer Gantry. The novel Cass Timberlane plays more like a Ross Hunter type soap opera.
To be sure there are some of the Sinclair Lewis that we know in the class conscious town where Cass Timberlane is a judge. And I certainly can't comment on the book, possibly it was more polemical and political than what we got in the film.
Spencer Tracy plays the title role, a judge in an average size midwestern town that has its good and bad, though it seems that how much money you have determines how good you are. Tracy has been a widower for many years and a pretty lonely fellow away from court.
But one day in court, young Lana Turner pops up as a witness in a negligence case before the judge. She's from the other side of the tracks so to speak. And there's a considerable age difference. Despite that Tracy and Turner fall in love and are married.
At this point the film becomes a soap opera with weak chinned heel Zachary Scott making a big play for Turner who's not happy with the way Tracy's high toned friends are treating her.
Tracy's good, he always is and Turner is luminescently beautiful. Scott has the heel role down pat, it's just a carry over from the part he did in Mildred Pierce. Look for a good performance also from Albert Dekker the corrupt leading citizen in the town.
This is a film that should have waited a decade and have Ross Hunter produce it.