Ruby Gentry (1952)A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man. Director:King Vidor |
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Ruby Gentry (1952)A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man. Director:King Vidor |
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| Jennifer Jones | ... |
Ruby Gentry
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| Charlton Heston | ... |
Boake Tackman
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| Karl Malden | ... |
Jim Gentry
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Tom Tully | ... |
Jud Corey
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Barney Phillips | ... |
Dr. Saul Manfred /
Narrator
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James Anderson | ... |
Jewel Corey
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Josephine Hutchinson | ... |
Letitia Gentry
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| Phyllis Avery | ... |
Tracy McAuliffe
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Herbert Heyes | ... |
Judge Tackman
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Myra Marsh | ... |
Ma Corey
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Charles Cane | ... |
Cullen McAuliffe
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Sam Flint | ... |
Neil Fallgren
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| Frank Wilcox | ... |
Clyde Pratt
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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.
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.