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Raintree County (1957)

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Overview

Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Writers:
Ross Lockridge Jr. (novel)
Millard Kaufman (screenplay)
Release Date:
20 December 1957 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
In The Great Tradition Of Civil War Romance
Plot:
A graduating poet/teacher falls in love with a Southern woman, and then the Civil War and her past create problems. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Edward DMYTRYK Dies At 90 (From Studio Briefing. 5 July 1999)
User Comments:
Luxurious parts = lumpen whole. more

Cast

 (Complete credited cast)

Montgomery Clift ... John Wickliff Shawnessy

Elizabeth Taylor ... Susanna Drake

Eva Marie Saint ... Nell Gaither
Nigel Patrick ... Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles

Lee Marvin ... Orville 'Flash' Perkins
Rod Taylor ... Garwood B. Jones

Agnes Moorehead ... Ellen Shawnessy
Walter Abel ... T.D. Shawnessy
Jarma Lewis ... Barbara Drake
Tom Drake ... Bobby Drake

Rhys Williams ... Ezra Gray
Russell Collins ... Niles Foster

DeForest Kelley ... Southern officer
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Additional Details

Runtime:
188 min (Turner Library Print) | USA:168 min (original version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.55 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints) | Mono (35 mm prints)
Filming Locations:
Danville, Kentucky, USA more
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Trivia:
On May 12, 1956, during the shooting of this film, Montgomery Clift had a bad car accident on his way back home from a party at the house of Elizabeth Taylor. His friend Kevin McCarthy witnessed the accident from his car, drove back and informed Taylor and her then husband Michael Wilding, who immediately drove to the location together with Rock Hudson. Taylor entered the car through the back door, crawled to the front seat and removed the two front teeth from Clift's throat that threatened to choke him. Hudson finally managed to pull him out of the wreck and together they protected him from being photographed until the ambulance arrived. This was necessary because soon after the emergency call had come in to the local police station, reporters were already on their way and arrived at the scene when Clift was still in the car. The accident was well publicized. After nine weeks of recovery Clift returned to the movie set and finished the film, but with considerable difficulties. His dashing looks, though, were gone forever. The left side of his face was more or less immobile. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: After Lincoln's 1860 election, the crowd sings "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". However, Julia Ward Howe wrote the poem, on which the song was based, for the Atlantic Monthly in 1861. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Making Love (1982) more
Soundtrack:
Never Till Now more

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9 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
Luxurious parts = lumpen whole., 26 May 2003
Author: Greg Couture from Portland, Oregon

M-G-M assigned some pretty heavy-hitters to cobble together this almost indigestible attempt to tell a Civil War story without a producer like David O. Selznick to insist that the whole thing should somehow come together. Other comments on this site tell the sad story of miscasting, a seemingly unfocused script, apparently disinterested direction and the obvious tragedy of Montgomery Clift's catastrophic automobile accident during production and its effect on all the performances he was to give thereafter.

Elizabeth Taylor is about the only central player who emerges relatively unscathed and her Academy Award nomination was deserved (and certainly more worthy of the Oscar she did win for "BUtterfield 8".)

I bought reserved seat tickets for this before its initial engagement began and the reviewers' generally negative appraisals were available. M-G-M's new big screen process, MGM Camera 65 ("Window of the World" as they termed it, used only once again by the studio for "Ben-Hur"), afforded a handsome showcasing of all the expense lavished upon this production, but, even as a teenager, I squirmed in my seat as its oh-so-lengthy reels unspooled and I left the theater regretting that its makers hadn't somehow achieved something memorable for its quality and dramatic impact, rather than for its longueurs. Johnny Green's score (and Nat King Cole's rendition of the title song) did sound awfully good over the stereophonic sound system at that Beverly Hills, California theater and that's one aspect of this disappointment that is now probably lost forever.

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