Roseanna McCoy

19491949
1h 29m

The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the title character, whose elopement with Johnse Hatfield serves to f... Read allThe saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the title character, whose elopement with Johnse Hatfield serves to further fuel the flames of the deadly mountain feud.The saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's Roseanna McCoy. Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the title character, whose elopement with Johnse Hatfield serves to further fuel the flames of the deadly mountain feud.

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Directors
- Irving Reis
- Nicholas Ray(uncredited)
Writers
- John Collier
- Alberta Hannum(novel)
- Ben Hecht(uncredited)
Stars

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Richard Basehart, Frank Ferguson, and Farley Granger in Roseanna McCoy (1949)

Richard Basehart and Joan Evans in Roseanna McCoy (1949)

Richard Basehart in Roseanna McCoy (1949)

Joan Evans and Aline MacMahon in Roseanna McCoy (1949)

Charles Bickford in Roseanna McCoy (1949)

Directors
- Irving Reis
- Nicholas Ray(uncredited)
Writers
- John Collier
- Alberta Hannum(novel)
- Ben Hecht(uncredited)
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Genres
- Drama
- Romance
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Trivia
Dirctor Nicholas Ray shot re-takes after Irving Reis left the picture.

Quotes
Roseanna McCoy: I can't ever marry you.
Thad Wilkins: But why not? Why can't you?
Roseanna McCoy: Because I'm bad.
Thad Wilkins: You bad? Why, Roseanna, I think you're lear out of your mind.
Roseanna McCoy: Maybe it's that... or bewitched.
Thad Wilkins: But I thought you said you... you said you like me to put my arms around you.
Roseanna McCoy: [Hugging him] To hold me and hide me. Oh, if it could only be. But I'd bring destruction to you, Thad. You'd catch it from me like a fever.
Thad Wilkins: Catch what?
Roseanna McCoy: The misery, the wickedness. Let's get on back to the house and when we get there you go off, Thad, and never think of me no more. Never no more.

Connections
Referenced in Let Him Have It (1991)

Soundtracks
Roseanna
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser

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5/10

The Hatfields and the McCoys

Out picking flowers, pretty Joan Evans (as Roseanna McCoy) gets stung by not only a hornet, but also handsome Farley Granger (as Johnse Hatfield). Guess you could call it love at first bite. Of course, their feudin' families ("The Hatfields and the McCoys") are against the young duo getting hitched... The meeting of the hillbilly "Romeo and Juliet" is one of the couple's few good scenes, with Mr. Granger leaping to Ms. Evans' aid, and sucking insect poison from her arm. The original casting idea, to star Cathy O'Donnell from Granger's "They Live by Night" (1948), might have worked. Richard Basehart (as Mounts Hatfield) easily goes to the head of a strong supporting cast. Little Peter Miles (as Randall McCoy) has a memorable shooting scene. And, many of the locations, by Lee Garmes, are beautiful.

***** Roseanna McCoy (8/18/49) Irving Reis ~ Joan Evans, Farley Granger, Richard Basehart, Peter Miles

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