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20 August 1953 (Sweden)
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So dangerous...destructive...deadly to love! more
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A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man. | add synopsis
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Jennifer Jones | ... | Ruby Gentry | |
| Charlton Heston | ... | Boake Tackman | |
| Karl Malden | ... | Jim Gentry | |
| Tom Tully | ... | Jud Corey | |
| Barney Phillips | ... | Dr. Saul Manfred / Narrator (as Bernard Phillips) | |
| James Anderson | ... | Jewel Corey | |
| Josephine Hutchinson | ... | Letitia Gentry | |
| Phyllis Avery | ... | Tracy McAuliffe | |
| Herbert Heyes | ... | Judge Tackman | |
| Myra Marsh | ... | Ma Corey | |
| Charles Cane | ... | Cullen McAuliffe | |
| Sam Flint | ... | Neil Fallgren | |
| Frank Wilcox | ... | Clyde Pratt |
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82 min
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Errors in geography: Early in the film, Ruby and Boake are driving on the beach in his car. There are noticeable mountains in the background. Since the film takes place on the coast of North Carolina, the landscape should be flat with the exception of sand dunes.
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Jim Gentry:
Don't let it shake you Doc, it's just anatomy.
Dr. Saul Manfred: I never saw anything like it in dissection lab, though.
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Dr. Saul Manfred: I never saw anything like it in dissection lab, though.
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Featured in "Biography: Jennifer Jones: Portrait of a Lady" (2001)
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When Tracy invites Dr. Manfred to her party in honor of Boake's return from South America the Dr. declines because he says he has an engagement. Why does Ruby look up at him with a stunned look on her face?more
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Jennifer Jones plays a feisty tomboy with a sadistic streak who's in love with young masochistic Charlton Heston and will do anything to have him - or to reject and ruin him at varying times, it seems - in this slight and silly offering from director King Vidor. What Heston's character sees in this nut-job Ruby is any viewer's guess.
Jones and Heston aren't bad, and Karl Malden is also a welcome asset to the cast in a supporting role. The ending is interesting amidst a well-photographed swamp background. But overall this is a dressed up and rather tacky melodrama that's much better directed than it probably had any right to be.